Planner

2 days ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

**2680 - Planner**

**Your new role**

National Highways have an excellent new opportunity for a Planner to join our Major Projects Directorate in the SMP PMO division. This role is based at the Birmingham Office though can be flexible to allow for working from home as circumstances dictate.

**What you’ll be leading on**
- Provide Primavera P6 support to the programme PMO and support the wider team in planning and project control techniques, both contractually and practically using NEC guidance.
- Communicate with the broader planning community, internally and externally, to ensure the monthly report cycle is completed in a timely fashion and provide advice where issues arise.
- Develop the current measurement and progressing techniques to improve the flow of data and advance the quality of data to allow greater accuracy of forecasting.
- Monitor change within the schemes and programme and highlight those elements that contribute to any negative aspects of the programme’s performance.
- Assist in programme-wide schedule quality improvements, assist in improving reporting quality throughout the programme and assist and driving quality and all-around quality performance.

**To be successful you’ll need**
- Have experience in schedule management, ideally using Primavera P6 software, and project controls techniques within a multi-schedule programme and understands the importance of quality data.
- Have experience in contract administration, preferably the NEC suite of contracts or bespoke agreements, and exposure to using this in a live project environment.
- Have experience in project controls and reporting progress and performance data and being able to highlight where issues, or potential issues, may lie.
- Has good communication skills and understands the importance of the messages being delivered, both in a verbal and written/illustrated format.
- Has experience in assessing and reviewing data and is able to present it in a manner that can be used across the business to accurately demonstrate the outcome.

**A bit about us**

**Smart Motorways Programme (SMP)**

The advent of new technology, different ways of operating and enhanced operations provide an opportunity to significantly enhance the performance of some motorway sections of the Strategic Road Network to a Smart Motorway standard.

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