Assistant Planning Engineer

We are looking for an Assistant Planning Engineer to provide additional support to our project delivery teams across the Costain business. Reporting into our Project Management Office (PMO), you will be responsible for providing planning support - working with Senior Planners, Project Managers and Engineering teams as required to develop and manage schedules to incorporate risk, change, resource requirements and cost.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Establish robust Work Breakdown and Project Control Structures to accurately reflect project scope
- Support the development of, control, monitor, analyse and report on schedule related aspects for designated projects
- Support the establishment and monitor a cost and resource loaded, logic linked, baseline plan for the project in accordance with appropriate processes
- Work with the project team to capture project budgetary costs and resources in the plan to determine time phasing of expenditure and the total project budget
- Work with the Project Manager and Project team to establish the project activities, cost and durations and ensure that these reflect project scope, constraints and commitments. Challenge as necessary to ensure compatibility and compliance
- Interface with other departments regarding 'information transfers' which may have an impact, and ensure they are correctly captured
- Facilitate acceptance of, and ensure the project plan embraces the full project work scope, is fit for purpose and is achievable
- Provide support for the creation and maintenance of project baselines in line with company procedures and guidance
- Ensure the reasons for, and the factors influencing each change to the project's baseline plan, plus the implications of such change, are understood and communicated with the wider project team
- Input to the monitoring, control and analysis of the project programme and cost information using Earned Value methodologies
- Challenge schedule and cost variances from the baseline plan
- Support the integration of 3rd party schedules and data into the overall project plan
- Regular interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project Plan

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Primavera (P6) training and experience would be advantageous
- Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans would be advantageous
- Relevant experience in Project Controls and/or Project Delivery, preferably in a highly regulated environment
- Evidence of an engineering background, ideally within a safety/regulated environment, would be advantageous
- High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills
- Excellent MS Office skills, well versed in the preparation of reports and information using packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint

**About Costain**

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

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**Right to Work & Security Checks**

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we'll carry out a criminal record check and we'll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

**Closing date**

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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