Lead Planner

**Job Title**:_Lead Planner - PMO _**

**Working Pattern**:_37 hours days _**

**Working location**:_Derby _**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a **Lead Planner**:

- to join our Project Management Office.

You will work as a Lead Planner to define planning standards, scheduling governance and assurance, implement the APly planning process and maintain Primavera P6 for the Submarines 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.

You will support Lead Planner and Planner Forums, to improve planning and scheduling processes

You will be involved in delivering Read/Write Primavera P6 training, coaching and mentoring planners from across the business

You will support Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) for the Project Management Function. This will involve providing and defining training, guidance, governance, and assurance to Schedule Risk Analysis activities.

**Why Rolls-Royce?**

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

**What we offer**

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

**What you will be doing**
- 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.

**Who we’re looking for**:
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
- 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 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.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us differe