Lead Planner

7 days ago

Loughborough, United Kingdom Brush Group Full time

**About The Role**:
**Job Summary**:
The Lead Planner plays a pivotal role within the PMO department, ensuring the successful planning, scheduling, and execution of projects. Responsible for developing, maintaining, and communicating project schedules, identifying critical path activities, and proactively managing risks and opportunities to ensure the project is delivered on time, in full and within budget.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with project teams to develop and maintain end-to-end project plans through engineering, procurement, manufacturing, installation and commissioning.
- Ensure the project plans align with the company objectives and client requirements.
- Work closely with project managers and department heads to allocate resources efficiently, including labour, materials, and equipment.
- Monitor resource utilisation and recommend adjustments to optimise project performance.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, identifying critical paths, resource pinch points and potential bottlenecks.
- Regularly update project timelines and communicate any deviations to stakeholders.
- Support the sales and commercial operations teams in allocating production slots in line with the sales pipeline.
- Utilise the project plans to support the business in creating revenue and cashflow forecasts.
- Foster effective communication between project teams, subcontractors, and stakeholders.
- Identify potential risks and opportunities related to project schedules.
- Support the Project Managers in developing mitigation and contingency plans to address schedule-related issues.
- Prepare and present regular progress reports to senior management, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and proposed solutions.
- Implement lessons learned from previous projects to enhance future planning.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements in project planning and scheduling.
- Mentorship to other planning/scheduling functions

**Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills**:

- On time and in full delivery in line with contractual requirements.
- Delivery of projects in line with the business revenue forecasts.
- Delivery of projects in line with the as sold margin forecasts.
- Baselining new projects into the overall programme of works.
- Planning works in line with business requirements.
- Ensuring Project plans in project for the web are accurate through reviewing timelines.
- Interfacing with production planning

**About The Company**:
BRUSH Transformers provide agile and adaptive engineering solutions and products, including consultancy services, design, and project management as well as award-winning product technology, to a wide range of projects.

A chosen partner for national and regional power generation and distribution network operators, through innovation and a commitment to delivering solutions that address grid-resilience and drive system change, we support the global drive to net-zero, helping create a future-proof Infrastructure.

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