- Lead the Enterprise Planning team for a Sector or Portfolio of Major Projects, managing the Programme schedules (Primavera P6) ensuring clear, timely and accurate information is provided to Project Management, the Project Board and key stakeholders as required.
- Manage and develop project programme reporting outputs in line with project and portfolio management requirements. Ensure the accuracy of all programme reporting.
- Take a leading role in Schedule Risk Analysis, both through Whatif scenario planning, and through use of quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis tools.
- Raise the profile of the project programme among the project team, ensuring key stakeholders are appraised of current programme position and the key interfaces and impacts related to their scopes.
- Coordinate Development of the detailed project Development and Execution programme, integrating Contractor schedules, internal Project Management, Financing and Engineering activities, and Regulatory/Consenting requirements, ensuring alignment with key project milestones and schedule drivers and accounting for interfaces between packages and scopes of work.
- Identify critical path for project and for sub packages, criticality of work scopes, and ensure that potential delays to critical activities are identified and mitigated.
- Degree educated in engineering, science or a related field, or significant work experience in large scale infrastructure projects.
- Significant major Project Planning experience, working within large, multicontract Engineering and Construction projects, including building fully integrated complex activity networks.
- Highly skilled user of Primavera P6 planning software. Skilled user of Microsoft Project.
- Experience in carrying out delay analysis and analysis of schedule implications of contractor claims.
- Experience in running whatif scenarios and schedule risk analysis.
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Lead Planner - Cardiff, United Kingdom - SSE
Description
About the Role
Base Location: Flexible UK & Ireland | We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, and this role is no exception. We will, however, need your base 'home' location to be one of our SSE offices or depots around the UK and Ireland.
Salary: up to £71,600 + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
The Lead Planner is responsible for providing leadership, coaching and mentoring of Planners, whilst defining and applying best practice planning approaches for the planning of complex large scale major infrastructure projects.
This role leads and supports the Project Teams in the development of full life-cycle project schedules (programmes) as part of the delivery of Sector Portfolios.
Working in tandem with the Project Teams, the role ensures that project schedules are constructed and maintained to the appropriate level, are robust and have schedule integrity, and contain accurate updates to aid project management.
This key project role will also include monitoring of schedule performance and risk through regular programme meetings with Project Teams, assessing and developing options to mitigate schedule risks, and supporting the Project Manager to quantify the impact and mitigations of any delay or contractor early warnings and/or compensation events, for example.
Role and Responsibilities will include:
What we would love you to have:
About our Business
SSE Enterprise Utilities 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.
In order to accelerate progress towards net zero SSE Group is investing £7m a day on low carbon infrastructure, creating 1,000 green jobs a year in the process, as part of its £25bn NZAP (Net Zero Acceleration Programme).
What's in it for you?
We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement (inclusive of 8 Bank Holidays).
Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.
As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments you need during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE.
Search for ' Inclusion & Diversity at SSE ' to find out more.What happens now?
All applications should be made online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.
If you would like to discuss any working flexibly requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact
EXTERNAL:
Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.
INTERNAL:
As a courtesy, please let your current line manager know you are applying.
