Project Planner

**Base Location**: We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, and this role is no exception. Ideally based from Glasgow or Reading with occasional travel to other SSE sites

**Salary**: Competitive + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing

**Working Pattern**: Permanent | Full Time

**What is the Role?**

We’re seeking an experienced infrastructure Project Planner with demonstrable Primavera P6 capability to join our expanding business at SSE. This is an exciting time to join our team as we progress a wide range of new and innovative infrastructure solutions across the UK and Ireland.

The core purpose of the role is driving the setup, coordination and management of P6 project plans with a focus on cost, resource, milestones and deliverables.

The projects involved will vary in size and complexity with multidisciplinary scope across a number of our sectors (for example: Solar, Battery, EV, Electrical and Heat Networks).

This is a varied role, the support you provide may involve planning the development of a small number of large scale, complex projects, a larger number of small projects across a range energy infrastructure solutions, or a mixture of large and smaller scale projects.

The role also requires the flexibility to support the development and operational delivery of the wider PMO/Business Planning services. This could include the development of planning standards, process, governance and reporting needed to set projects up for success as our business grows at pace.

Key accountabilities will include:

- Developing and maintaining a range of individual and complex work packages, project plans, and master plans in Primavera P6. This will include planning the full programme/project lifecycle (development through to construction and commissioning), dependency management, ensuring alignment with PMO standards and processes and ongoing critical path analysis.
- Maintaining a clear view of the project baseline and tracking the milestones, resource, budget loading and profiling including coordinating inputs and plan updates across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Actively driving the development of plans, including close working with project teams, and interacting with the wider SSE teams, sub-contractors and external partners or clients to ensure plans are coherent, practicable, realistic and up to date.
- Actively supporting project collaborative planning and recovery planning exercises.
- Developing, amending and maintaining resource utilisation and cost loaded plans, including forecasting.
- Support the quantification of risk and issue impacts on project schedules, agreeing mitigating actions, and tracking progress and delivery of those actions.
- Support the assessment and implementation of change on project schedules, working with our internal project teams and our Contractors to agree the impact of change on our project plans.

**What do I need?**

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

- Planning experience in the infrastructure and/or major projects sector (electricity, water, oil/gas, rail, highways, major buildings etc.) is essential for this role (development and/or construction).
- Demonstrable experience in planning using Primavera P6, demonstrating competence in working collaboratively to develop plans from conception through to construction and completion.
- Experience of large, complex multidisciplinary projects including cost and resource scheduling at scale within commercially diverse teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate to various levels up to senior management.
- Proactive, forward thinking with the ability to work in an agile and fast paced working environment.

**About our Business**

SSE Energy Solutions is the Distributed Energy (DE) and Private Networks business of SSE plc. We finance, own, operate and maintain energy infrastructure for commercial, industrial and residential customers - providing them with a market leading project development service and certainty of operational performance and asset management.

**Life at SSE**

If you're considering a career with us, you're probably wondering what's in it for you? From health and wellness to finances and family, we're proud of our benefits package which includes 34 days holiday (plus the option to buy additional days), enhanced maternity and paternity leave, discounted healthcare and a wide range of offers via our SSE Advantage scheme.

At SSE we're proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself. We take pride in a job well done and share the belief that an inclusive culture is key to our success and vision for the future. Above all, safety is at the heart of everything we do at SSE and we live by the mantra 'if it's not safe, we don't do it'.

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