Project Planner

**Job Location**:

- Knowsley**Job Department**:

- Projects**Job Type**:

- Full Time**Job Title**:Project Planner
**Function**:Projects
**Reporting to**:Project Quality and Controls Manager
**Scope**:Clarke Energy Ltd
**Location**:Knowsley, with extensive UK and some overseas travel required
**Job Purpose**:To develop and manage Project Design, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning Programmes
**Majority of time spent**:Programme Planning and Development

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for ensuring that internal planning processes and work instructions are followed on all assigned projects to allow for consistency and reporting.
- Development of multi-discipline construction project programmes in accordance with contracted scope.
- Successful in identifying any project deviations, slippage, opportunities, mitigations and communication of same to the Project Delivery Team.
- Ensuring that all issues and risks within the programme are highlighted and understood by the Project Delivery Team, providing appropriate planning advice.
- Delivering periodic project updates regarding progress, changes and delays that have impacted the project as required.
- Assisting the proposals team to develop tender programmes.

**Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills**:

- Good understanding of both electrical and/or mechanical engineering.
- Ability to read and understand Engineering Drawings, PID’s, and GA’s.
- Knowledge of the ‘Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015’
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office package
- Advanced user of Microsoft Project
- Good general IT skills.
- Understanding of Project Management and Engineering / Construction Project Delivery

**Personal Attributes/Skills**:
This requires the job holder to demonstrate that they are:

- Consistently trustworthy and professional.
- Reliable and dependable.
- Responsive to customers’ needs
- Supportive and able to work well with colleagues.
- Effective in managing their time and workload.
- Prepared to work under own initiative and do what is required to get job done.
- Committed to quality and improvement.
- Willing to take responsibility for work and actions.
- Keen to seek out and act on ideas for self
- improvement.

In addition, it is particularly important to the success of this role that the job holder can demonstrate the following:

- Good relationship building and communication skills-at all levels and across functions, internally and externally.
- Ability to motivate, persuade and influence others.
- A flexible approach to requirements - adapts to changing priorities and requirements.
- Strong planning skills.
- Commercial awareness - acts to minimise costs to Clarke Energy and customers.

**Essential**:

- A background in both electrical and/or mechanical engineering.
- Knowledge of the ‘Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office package
- Advanced user of Microsoft Project
- Good general IT skills.
- Willingness to travel extensively and work away from home as required.

**Desirable**:

- Degree / HND / HNC in Engineering.