Lead Planner

**Your Impact**:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay, free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

**About the Opportunity**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Planner working across our Nuclear Power Programmes, to deliver a complete project planning capability to both internal and external stakeholders within Jacobs supporting the Head of Project Controls, and managing, when necessary, project planners. To undertake all aspects of Planning and scheduling utilising Jacobs processes and procedures and tools. To support the seamless delivery of the projects.

**Principal Accountabilities**:

- Ensuring the delivery of security, quality, environment, safety and health performance in accordance with the requirements of Jacobs SQESH policy and SQESH management systems within all areas of this roles’ responsibility
- Implementing best practice project planning policy, processes and procedures on projects
- Accurately identifying, controlling and forecasting the time scales and resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time overruns
- Co-ordinating the flow of information to ensure that interfaces both within projects are effectively managed to optimise efficiencies
- Developing and incorporating critical path, resource and programme risk analysis into resource allocations and the monitoring and reporting of progress against that planned
- Progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies
- Summarising data through the programme hierarchy from detail to summary levels
- Developing and managing a database to capture and identify work rate norms and trends, earned value and performance indicators

**Here’s what you’ll need**:

- Good technical skills including problem solving and decision making
- Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for presentation of data for analysis and review
- Good team working skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel
- Familiarity with standard office software including Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Outlook
- A proven ability to manage team members and junior staff is desirable
- Competence with proprietary planning software (ideally Primavera P6)

**Our Culture**

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - find out more about our employee networks here.