Associate Planner - London, United Kingdom - Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Project Controls, the role will be responsible for developing and maintaining robust control of the capital investment schedule across.

This includes providing active support the project and programme team(s) in all planning and reportingactivities.

This role would suit a collaborative individual with great leadership and communication skills who enjoys multi-tasking, loves a busy working environment and thrives under pressure.

Key Duties/Responsibilities

This is a business critical role - effectively hosting our 'single view of the truth' for schedule across Affinity Water.

The role has the following parameters, working in tandem with our Project Control Specialists
To ensure that capital investment programme schedule information is accurate and timely
To establish the scope and work breakdown structure for the capital delivery schedule, including the capture of key assumptions

To define and control the schedule baseline for our capital delivery schedule and project, programme and portfolio levels, ensuring that they incorporate learning from previous projects and is realistic / achievable.

Work closely with the Project Controls Specialiststo ensure that the schedule, budget and risk / contingency baselines are consistent and integrated
Establish and maintain the framework for maintaining the schedule interdependencies between projects, programmes and portfolios
Establish and maintain the framework for forecasting critical resources - to enable the identification and mitigation of bottlenecks
Establish, maintain and continuously improve the framework for template schedules, schedule activity norms and standard work
Establish, maintain and continuously improve the framework for schedule risk assessment, contingency and mitigation
Critically review and assess all schedules, investment papers and change requests - making recommendations to our Investment Committee (including confidence on deliverability)
To ensure that schedule progress is regularly reviewed and reported, identifying risks, issues and opportunities
Oversee the schedules that are being reported by project and programme managers, ensuring that the underpinning schedules from our supply chain are well defined and accurately reported
To produce and continuously improve schedule management information as part of our monthly reporting cycle
To establish and continuously improve the planning standards, processes and procedures required to effectively control the plan
To retain records and historic data for future reference and protection of the business
To lead the Planning Team
To act as business owner for the planning systems and processes
To establish service level agreements with all internal customers for planning activities

Required criteria for the ideal Associate Planner:
Experience of Earned value and Critical Path management and control
Experience of planning in an NEC3 / 4 environment
Expertise in drafting and presenting reports and briefings to a senior executive audience.
Development, deployment and continuous improvement of planning processes, procedures and systems
Attention to detail
Successful experience of working in multiple project environment
Team leadership
Construction Forensic Planning experience essential
Claims Planning experience essential
About the business unit

The Advisory and Programme Delivery?(APD) unit delivers management services in all the sectors that Mott MacDonald operate in the Built Environment, Defence, Energy, Water, Transportation and, Education, Health and Care.

How to apply

Mott MacDonald is Work180 accredited - which means we actively support and encourage women to join our work force

Benefits we offer:
Pension matched up to 7%
Life insurance
An annual professional institution subscription
Continuous development opportunities - because we want you to thrive
Agile/flexible working - because life isn't 9-5
Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies - for parents and care givers
Annual company performance bonus scheme - Subject to company performance
Flexible benefits that suit you, including cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans.
The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes
Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.

We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusiveenvironment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments.

We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.