Project Planner

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Project Planner - IP

**Location**:
Birmingham, GB

**Department Name**:
IC Head of Programme Management (453150) G2

**About Network Rail**:
We're proud to be recognised by Glassdoor as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in 2021. To find out more about our people, visit - Our People.

Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year.

Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we’re empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues, and protecting safety and wellbeing.

We’re passionate about great service and we ask ourselves, what can we do to put our passengers and freight users at the centre of everything we do? With this in mind, we pull together as one industry because we care about people and teamwork is key.

This is an exciting time to join Network Rail. We’re passionate about great service and commit to our service equation vision by “putting passengers first”. Performance, safety, and getting the fundamental basics right, are something we strive for as well as asking ourselves - what can we do to put our passengers and freight users at the centre of everything we do?

You will be part of the NW&C Region which consists of three routes:

- North West
- Central
- West Coast South - and a regional team supporting Regional Major Programmes & Professional services.

To find out more about NW&C/us, visit - Who We Are.

For us, ‘Diversity' means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

**Brief Description**:
As a Project Planner, you’ll develop project or integration programme plans/schedules on behalf of programme and project managers in order to meet the overall requirements of the client/business in the most cost-effective and reliable manner.

**About the role (External)**:
**What will you be doing?**
- To interact and become a key member of the project delivery team providing a quality service to support the effective delivery of the project.
- To interact and support effective information sharing/collection with all the project stakeholders in an appropriate manner.
- Prepare a project work breakdown structure and plan/schedule which is capable of delivering the project objectives and providing effective project performance measurement and reporting.
- To develop the appropriate quality plan/schedule in line with the project scheduling principles and processes.
- Monitor and progress the plan/schedule and make changes as required. Develop recovery schedules and contingency plans in order to meet changed objectives as necessary.
- Input the planning issues into the project’s critical issues risk log. Review planning risks and monitor whether the risk register is updated accordingly.
- Report actual performance and variance against plan and forecast outcomes. Highlight key milestones and critical path issues to members of the team, provide an assessment of the impact of such issues and recommend solutions to correct the position.
- Monitor and audit contractor plans. Monitor contractor’s planning processes so that they comply with Network Rail procedure requirements.
- Interrogate contractor’s statement of progress for schedule adherence and payment purposes.
- Identify key resource requirements and monitor that these are properly booked and availability is maintained.

**In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be**:
**(Essential)**
- Relevant experience in the successful scheduling of engineering projects.
- Knowledge of railway investment planning systems.
- Experience of using a number of project management scheduling tools & techniques

**We would also like but it isn’t crucial to have/to be**:
**(Desirable)**
- Membership of a relevant professional body
- Understanding of the engineering requirements of work on the railway

Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

A career with Network Rail is a journey and we will do everything we can to make it a great one.

Network Rail positively embraces flexible working recognising that employees may wish to balance work and family/home life.

We adhere to a structured pay framework, **any salary offered will be within the following pay range**: Starting salary of £41,711 raising to £46,925.

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