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Project Planner

Ref no. BHN578527
Benefits Please see below for more benefits.
Location Staffordshire, England
Start date ASAP
Job type Permanent
Job status Open

Job summary

Want to join a company with over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, and delivering highly bespoke solutions?

Key skills required for this role

Project Planning, Microsoft Project, Multi-discipline development, Risk management, Scheduling and planning, Waterfall, Agile, JIRA, Task management, Communication and presenting.

Important

Candidates must be eligible to obtain a SC (Security) clearance

Job description

Important: All applicants must be able to obtain Security Clearance.

Working: Possible Flexible and some remote working potentials.

🏆 Join a reputable business who have a number of awards, most recently been named as an Award winner (Gold Award) in MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme!

❤ Join a team at an exciting time, at the start of re-defining their systems, with the opportunity to influence and shape the product!

The Opportunity

There is a new and exciting opportunity for a Project Planner to support the project management function!

In this role you will be responsible for creating and maintaining the project schedule for one or more projects or programmes.

Working closely with the Project Manager, Project Engineering Lead, Project Risk Manager and Scrum Master, you will create and maintain the project schedule taking account of task progress and dependencies, resource constraints and allocations, potential schedule impacts of identified risks and mitigations, emergent work and risk materialization.

You will be responsible for ensuring project progress and events are dynamically reflected in the schedule and for reporting updates to the project management team, providing them with clear impacts and options to discuss with management, customers and other stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules that detail tasks, milestones, deadlines and dependencies.

  • Working closely with the Project Risk Manager, ensure that project schedules reflect identified risks and mitigations.

  • Working closely with the Project Manager, Project Engineering Lead and Scrum Master, monitor task progress and ensure this is accurately reflected in the project schedules.

  • Support the regular business cycle of resource forecasting on a short-term and long-term basis.

  • Ensure that project schedules are dynamically updated to reflect accurate resource allocations, risk materialisation, emergent work and contract changes.

  • Monitor project timelines and adjust plans as necessary to ensure timely completion.

  • Provide regular reports and updates to the project management team, including clear understanding of impacts of project events and any options or decision points.

  • Act as the process expert for project planning within the business.

  • Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement of project planning processes.

Qualifications / skills required

  • Excellent knowledge of project management tools including Microsoft Project

  • Experience of planning complex projects within a multi-discipline development environment

  • Understanding of project risk management and its impact on scheduling and planning

  • Ability to work with minimal supervision

  • Understanding of Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid delivery methodologies desirable

  • Working knowledge of JIRA or similar task management tool desirable

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

  • Good team worker

  • Enthusiastic with drive and motivation

  • Experience of working within a team-based, multi-discipline development environment

  • Hybrid working options and flexible / part time hours can be considered

We would love to hear from you! And even if you don't feel like you're 100% fitting to this role, we would still encourage you to reach out to us!

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