P6 Planner

P6 Planner

This is a great opportunity for an experienced P6 Planner to join an established and experienced railway infrastructure contractor.

The company has been awarded a significant amount of renewal work, and are looking for an experienced Senior or Intermediate P6 Planner to join their Railway Signalling & Power team.

The P6 Planner role is with a company who are dedicated to growing and diversifying, through flexibility, partnership, collaboration with a forward-thinking can-do approach.

Key responsibilities for this P6 Planner role:

- Responsible for creating project schedules ensuring quality, logic, clarity and accuracy. From various sources.
- Support the use/integration of project and contract management systems into the daily operation of the business.
- Provide support for the administration of contracts including programme requirements as part of tender/contract preparation, reviewing of tender progress and monitoring programmes once awarded.
- Perform project progress monitoring duties including identifying critical path activities and reviewing forecasts with progress achieved to date.
- Assist the Project Manager with evaluating schedule impacts arising from sourcing decisions.
- Provide relevant reports and planning support to both project team members and management to ensure the team has all the tools required to make the right decisions to execute the project and meet all established project deadlines.
- Clearly communicate roles, expectations, and accountabilities to all team members on a regular basis.
- Regularly keep management and stakeholders informed of problems, issues, and status of on-going projects.
- Raise the standard of planning, implementing consistency and best practices

Experience required for this P6 Planner role:

- Proven experience as a Project Planner with a main contractor in the rail sector.
- Competent user of Primavera P6
- Experience of tender/contract preparation, reviewing of tender progress and monitoring programmes once awarded.
- Good expertise working on Network Rail Infrastructure related projects

Desirable experience for this P6 Planner role:

- Experience of working on Signalling/Power projects (desirable)
- A a recognised professional qualification in planning management or are working towards one. eg PMI
- based in Anglia or willing to lodge nearby

Package offered for this P6 Planner role:

- 6 months rolling contract
- Opportunity for partial remote working
- Inside IR35
- Opportunity for overtime work

Service advertised by Navartis are that of an Employment Agency/Business