Strategic Planning Manager

4 weeks ago

Stansted, United Kingdom Mace Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Planning Manager to join our team at Mace. As a Planning Manager, you will be responsible for leading and maintaining exceptional safety, quality, cost, programme, sustainability, and project compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the delivery of key assignments and defined business areas, providing strategic direction and monitoring delivery aligned with overall vision and objectives.
  • Support the long-term success of planning performance for specified engines/sectors/hubs, and the overall contribution to the broader company goals.
  • Support the planning function in ensuring projects and tenders are effectively planned, scheduled, and monitored.
  • Leads application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques, and tools.
  • Good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, EVM, project controls methodologies.
  • Ability to advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively.
  • Able to manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects/programmes.
  • Ability to play key role in multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plans or analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques.
  • Leads and manages a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and responsible for staff development.
  • Excellent written communication skills, clear & concise;
  • As a planning/schedule management specialist, stays up to date with key industry/professional trends;
  • In-depth knowledge of schedule management tools & software.
  • Able to provide effective & timely advice to clients;
  • Understanding of data management;
  • Clearly understands role & future career paths available from that position;
  • Excellent attention to detail & able to validate & check schedule management inputs, recording & reports produced, providing basic commentary & analysis;
  • Manages assistant and planning managers where required by the scale of the project
  • Persuading and influencing colleagues
  • Influences client to accept proposals and recommendations
  • Satisfying customer requirements
  • Tackling problems that don't have an obvious solution
  • Delegating tasks to others
  • Selling the business and winning work
  • Creating and delivering persuasive presentations to large audiences
  • Spotting and developing talented individuals

Requirements

  • Exposure of working as a Primavera P6 project planner on large scale complex construction projects ideally for a tier 1 contractor or a client side consultancy.
  • Construction related degree (civil/structural engineering, or construction/project management or equivalent).
  • Digitally savvy, can build lasting client relationships and lead strong, motivated teams.
  • Experience of working on large projects/programmes.
  • Construction or project management background and be hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Mace have to offer.
  • Working in a large portfolio of projects
  • Mentoring and upskilling of inexperienced planners
  • Implementation of planning principles within the project management community
  • Working with large range of stakeholders
  • Planning of complicated construction new build / refurbishment projects and summarisation of these into portfolio level schedules
  • Experienced P6 user (P6 pro)
  • Familiarisation with P6 EPPM (Web) – for config management – see below
  • Management of large data sets into simple reporting formats, through coding and layout manipulation
  • Baseline control and config
  • Schedule import and export

Desirable Skills

  • NEC / JCT / D&B / CM
  • Construction – living accommodation, offices, workshops, sports facilities, associated infrastructure
  • Familiarisation with other planning software – Microsoft Project, Asta Power Project
  • Schedule risk analysis (QSRA)
  • P6 configuration management – user access, OBS creation and management, user profiles, OBS assignation
  • Set up and use of resources – future project not yet required
  • Use of P6 for EVM – future project not yet required

About Mace

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

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