Senior Planner

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Every day, our 7,750 switchers located in 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Pacific Asia & Africa) connect their six thousand billion neurons to tackle the task of the century: switching to low-carbon energy.

We are a collective committed to the actors who are making the energy switch. Sharing our knowledge, expertise and values allows us to innovate and think differently about the energy transition.

Drawing on more than 55 years' experience in highly regulated sectors subject to strict security and safety requirements, we provide our customers with engineering and project management services, as well as digital services and solutions to optimize the performance of complex infrastructure projects throughout their life cycle. The Group is currently ranked second in the world for nuclear engineering.

To ensure a viable, efficient, and reliable energy future for all

Assystem Energy & Infrastructure are recruiting for a Senior Planner to work at our customers site in Derby on a contract basis.

You will work as a Senior Planner to define planning standards, scheduling governance and assurance, implement the APly planning process and maintain Primavera P6 for the Business. You will interface with the Programme Teams to provide guidance support and monitoring throughout the programme lifecycle, facilitating the teams in providing accurate and timely management information.

Role details: 

• Job title: Senior Planner
• Contract length: 12 months 
• Location: Derby  
• Contract type: PAYE via Umbrella solution

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Planning, Scheduling (P6), and Management information System integration and support.
• Actively facilitate development and ensure the on-going maintenance of the programme schedule (Integrated Milestone Plan and Integrated Master Schedule).
• Support and develop Primavera P6 Layouts, Coding and UDFs
• Support Permissions and EPS structure
• Ensure that the scope of work being planned is fully logic linked with the wider work scope, undertake tracking, and maintain dependencies, identifying and reporting deviations and triggering exception reports as appropriate.
• Facilitate project planning, risk and opportunity meetings with programme team members.
• Assist in the development of the schedule Performance Measurement Baseline [PMB] with the project teams and the on-going management of it through the change control process.
• Collect programme status information to maintain and update schedules and issue management information as required. This will require schedule variance analysis, identification of schedule risks, issues and opportunities together with Critical Path Analysis.
• Support in the development and delivery of SRA software Training and techniques.
• Support and Develop the maturity and deployment of SRA modelling within the programmes.
• Work with the Control Account, Programme teams and key stakeholders to ensure that a credible and robust Risk Modelling process is adopted.

• Project Planning and Primavera P6 to expert level
• Experience of working in an Integrated Project Team environment ideally gained within engineering/manufacturing/Infrastructure sectors.
• Experience of leading software adoption and implementation within Project Teams.
• Experience of developing schedules of work involving multiple projects using Primavera P6, with the ability to apply sound logic when translating information into a logical sequence of events, which require fully linked dependencies
• Experience of delivering training and Working towards a related professional qualification (APM) or entry level qualification (HND, Foundation Degree or equivalent).
• Ability to deliver accurate work within service level agreements and use initiative to work through issues and barriers.
• Experience of managing several tasks simultaneously, prioritising activity to meet deadlines.

**Security clearance**

This role requires the successful candidate to hold a minimum of a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance.

Due to the nature of work this role will be delivering and for the protection of certain assets, the successful candidate has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non-ITAR country.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people's ability to dare are the only things that matter . Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.