Senior Project Planner

1 month ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Sonas Technical Full time

We are partnered with an international multi-disciplinary engineering services contractor, recruiting a **Senior Project Planner** for their offices in **West London**.
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**Role Purpose**:
As a Senior Project Planner, you will play an active role in project management support of multi-disciplined, multi-sector project delivery work by facilitating the planning, scheduling and controlling processes. Providing advice, support and clear communication of fact-based answers to key management questions which will aid in intelligent and effective decision making, and must escalate and flag internally to the Lead Planner (& Planning & Risk Manager) immediately where there is risk.

**Key Functions of the Senior Project Planner**
- Provide a high quality of service to the project manager
- Managing, mentoring and providing guidance to Planners / Juniors as required depending
- Review Contract documentation and highlight key schedule and tracking requirements
- Develop Construction schedule based on high level target schedule and WBS received from Project manager
- Support in client schedule negotiations
- Labour & Metrics load the schedule based on hours & quantities received from the Commercial Team
- Develop the required Trackers and Reporting templates
- Develop fully integrated construction schedule in conjunction with the Main Contractor and Project Manager
- Measure & track weekly progress and efficiency in consultation with the Site Team and validate this formally with the Commercial Team every 2 / 3 weeks
- Highlight potential risks and roadblocks to the project team and lead planner on an ongoing basis

**Senior Project Planner Responsibilities**
In conjunction with your project team, you will be responsible for the execution of various stages of a project as follows:
**Business Unit Support**
- Point of contact for the Project Manager for all project related planning issues
- Develop Schedule’s and Histograms for Bid Support as required by the Lead Planner

**Programme Co-ordination (Planning Phase of Project Life Cycle)**:

- Support the implementation of Planning Process
- Review Contract documentation concerning Schedule and Reporting Requirements and ensure that they are met
- Facilitate Planning Meeting(s) where required
- Validation of High Level Target Schedule as received from PM considering current emerging IFC project information
- Optimize build schedule & develop “Pinch Pint Register” identifying where we are not in agreement with Main Contractors / CMT schedule
- High level labour load of Target Schedule to be completed and S-Curve to be produced
- Submit the Schedule and S-curve (& all subsequent schedules) for review and approval to the Lead Planner
- Negotiation strategy to be developed to deal with main contractor schedule risk - influence favourable outcome to KGE
- Organize with PM & attend meeting with Main Contractor / CMT to negotiate and agree optimum build schedule - minute and circulate
- Revise / Develop and add agreed level of detail to schedule
- Assist Main Contractor / CMT in development of an overall integrated schedule
- Ensure that the schedule is “Labour Loaded” and aligned with the Commercial Department Budgets - highlight any weeks where large progress is forecasted to PM’s, Lead Planner & Planning Manager
- Produce Build Methodology / Phasing Drawings
- Present the latest version of the schedule to the construction team to ensure there is a thorough understanding
- Support in Risk identification & mitigation

**Status and Performance Advisor (Controlling Phase of Project Life Cycle)**:

- Provide clear communication of early warnings to project management teams obtained from progress reports and knowledge of project field conditions
- Advise project teams on ways to improve performance
- Monitor package progress and efficiency (direct and subcontract) provide “estimate at completion” on labour man-hour spend in conjunction with the Commercial Team
- Chair and facilitate weekly “Look Ahead” Meetings on site with SM’s as required
- Progress Measuring / recording & collating actual installation progress for installation progress reporting
- Weekly Spent / Earned man-hours efficiency reporting in conjunction with the Commercial Team
- Compilation of and issuing of period progress reports (internal / external)
- Produce Weekly “Drop-line Schedule” cw. 2 week look ahead and 2 week retrospective
- Schedule management, revision and maintenance
- Escalation of risk items to Lead Planner & Planning & Risk Manager

**General**
- Look for new opportunities to improve service to “Internal Customers”
- Look for new opportunities to improve processes

**Necessary requirement of the Sen

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