Senior Planning Manager

1 month ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Mace Full time

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

The project:

Mace provide PMO services (project controls, planning and scheduling, risk and change management) to a client who operates within the rail / transport sector. Projects can vary from construction through to infrastructure work. Projects can be any type of civil engineering works including utilities, roads, walkways, bridges, tunnelling through electrification, signalling and other works. We may also be involved in refurbishment and new build construction work. Often Mace are managing multiple projects at anyone time with values ranging from hundreds of thousands of pounds to multi million pound projects. Exposure of having experience of working in the role on the above type of projects is essential.

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

  • Safety first - Going home safe and well
  • Client focus - Deliver on our promise
  • Integrity - Always do the right thing
  • Create opportunity - For our people to excel

Provides document management and general administration support to the project team. Typically involves smaller projects where time is shared between the two disciplines.

You'll be responsible for:

  • Supporting the senior planning manager in the implementation and maintenance of project controls processes for scheduling, including the production of monthly reports, through the provision of intelligent information and analysis.
  • Collaborating with other disciplines of project controls, as well as other project support functions, to help deliver project goals in keeping with the client's principles of trust, transparency and teamwork.
  • Maintaining an awareness of schedule interfaces with other programmes and their potential impact.
  • Planning and managing the development, change and improvement of the client level 4 IMS and providing planning guidance to the project and programme team.
  • Identifying, evaluating, and providing solutions to time-related issues and providing quality checks on the scheduling data.
  • Assisting in the trend and change process, including analysis of schedule impact, generating performance indicators, and providing feedback on areas of risk and opportunities.
  • Providing fully resource programmes, produce resource histograms, resource level programmes, understand and communicate the effect on programme schedules to the project team.
  • Incorporating appropriate financial data in the programme to produce a project cost/time distribution profile and communicate the results to the project team.
  • Displaying and evaluating the project critical path and advise the project team of the results and any appropriate corrective action.
  • Producing and maintaining project baselines and execute the change control process as appropriate.
  • Producing project reports or data directly from the planning software arranging the data to align with the company accounting software.
  • Understanding and reporting on a project using earned value analysis techniques and interpret/communicate the results and any corrective action to the project team.

You'll need to have:

  • A HND or equivalent qualification in engineering, construction, or another related field.
  • A detailed understanding of scheduling methodologies and techniques.
  • A technical and practical comprehension of engineering, procurement and construction methods and techniques in a UK context.
  • The ability to produce accurate, complete and fully logic-linked construction plans.
  • Experience and knowledge in the use of scheduling software, ideally Primavera P6 version 7 and above.
  • Experience on a major construction project. You can build lasting client relationships and provide support to strong, motivated teams.
  • Proven project management or project controls experience in a similar scheduling role in a construction or consultancy background across large scale construction or infrastructure projects.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.
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