Primavera P6 Planner

Job title: Primavera (P6) Planner
Location: Dartford (on site 2-3 days per week)
Contract length: 6 Months (extensions in place to facilitate project length)
Pay rate: Circa £400 per day (INSIDE IR35)
My high-profile Utilities client is currently recruiting for a Primavera (P6) Planner to join their team, supporting the refurbishment of a substation in Dartford. The current substation at Littlebrook, Dartford, is no longer fit for purpose and a new facilityis needed to ensure they continue to provide a reliable source of electricity for homes and businesses.
Job Purpose
- To provide development, tendering and construction planning competency for electricity, gas and ISS.
- Develop and implement efficient end to end processes, including critical path and total float analysis, earned value management techniques, and leading indicators for risk mitigation to ensure the successful delivery to time, and within allowances.
- Provide the Project Manager recommendations following month end analysis that assist key making timely decisions for corrective action.
Key Accountabilities
- Engage with Investment Development establish timelines for production of quality assured and cost loaded, out turned deliverable programmes for sanction, that meet the capital plan year on year.
- Support the Capital Delivery contracts team to consistently evaluate tender returns within procurement guidelines and demonstrate that the contractor has understood its obligation to provide the works.
- During delivery support the Project Manager to certify that all subsequent contractor programmes are compliant to the NEC and works information.
- Carry out impact assessments of early warnings or change events either from our supply chain or Project Manager.
- Assess and validate supply chain progress during design and attend site during delivery to confirm construction progress.
- Represent the client whilst engaging with contractor planning resource to complete month end reporting routines and liaise with Project Controls stakeholders to raise exceptions early to enable corrective actions, as well as share good practices.
- Continuously review and improve processes by raising innovative solutions to drive value and establish best practice planning and project controls.
Knowledge, experience and technical know how
- Advanced knowledge of P6 or equivalent planning tool
- Skilled capability to assess change and impact assessment on time risk allowance and forensic analysis
- Advanced understanding of the key NEC clauses for Planning and Early Warning
- Carried out client programme development for initial project phases
- Evaluated tender programmes for compliance to NEC clauses for Planning and Early Warning
- Experience in delivery of projects during construction during civils installation, preferably in high voltage electricity or gas transmission environments.
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