Scheduler/planner - London, United Kingdom - DATS Recruitment

DATS Recruitment

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking to support our client based in Central London with a permanent staff vacancy for a Planner /Scheduler experienced with MS project.

This will operate on a hybrid working pattern with just 2 days per week needed in the office.

After a series of successful deployments, the company is experiencing a significant increase in activity with both retrofit and newbuild projects on order and we are expanding our team and recruiting high calibre people to join our dynamic team on their exciting journey of rapid growth.

Role Summary:

Reporting to the Project Controls and Planning Lead, the Sr Planning Specialist will act as the company's point of excellence in developing and maintaining the integrated project schedules using MS Project.

This role will become a critical member of the project controls team, interfacing across all functions, to manage and update the project schedules on a regular and if required ad-hoc basis.

This role will suit to specialist with prime expertise in planning, with good understanding of project controls processes, good numerical and analytical skills, attention to detail and desire to learn, intrinsic interest to learn new skills, systems, interest in new efficient ways to control projects and provide value to project team.

Maintaining a close and positive working relationship with all functions is critical to the success of the role, as is a high degree of clarity, accuracy, and speed in executing project and schedule updates.

Key Responsibilities:

Take responsibility for health and safety in all aspects of the role.
Following company project controls development processes and schedule templates setup, baseline, maintain, update, identify trends, identify issues, and forecast multiple projects schedules
Review projects with the key stakeholder to ensure their agreement and acceptance
Using company systems update schedule progress on regular basis, provide inputs to all stakeholders
Provide schedule analysis, critical path analysis, identify and discuss the issues with Project Managers/Lead Engineers and incorporate suggested project corrective actions
Maintain multiple projects data integrity, hierarchy, and relationship
Design, analyse and report projects metrics using MS Excel, Power Pivot, Power BI Reporting tool.
Contribute into development of Project Planning and Control procedures.
Perform adhoc reporting and analysis from time to time.

Skills, Qualifications, Experience & Characteristics:

37 years' experience in scheduling and planning within engineering, technology, manufacturing, major equipment supplier, EPC type of project execution organisation
Basic Knowledge of Project Execution processes and good practices
Able to engage, report, analyse and interpret decisions into the schedule workflow
Training will be provided about company way to execute the projects. Ability to understand basic engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning information
Good organisational skills, and ability to manage multiple cases at same time, even when from a remote location
Ability to design required presentation inputs
Good analytical, numerical analysis and forecasting skills
Positive, optimistic, and flexible personality with "can do" attitude
Ability to multitask on a variety of projects to time and quality
Enjoying experience working within growing project control function
Desire to learn, grow and progress with the company.
Good insight and training of company processes and business objectives will be provided
Must have skills:
MS Project

- proficient,