Project Planner - Bedford, United Kingdom - Bridge of Hope

Bridge of Hope
Bridge of Hope
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Bedford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Position:
Project Planner

Salary:
£35,000 - £42,000.

Location:
Kempston
Proactive are currently working with a client who are a market leader in their field based in Kempston.


You will be responsible for:


  • Work closely with PMO, development, operations and other project teams to develop detailed schedules, keep these schedules current and seamlessly integrated into the IMS.
  • Provide handson development of schedules detailing how a specific project is progressing including how the project contributes to overarching program requirements and objectives.
  • Develop resource loaded project schedules using the performances work statements (PWS), technical proposal, WBS and oral directions from project managers and technical leads.
  • Develop and maintain linkages dependencies and inter dependencies with related projects.
  • Ensure internal an external dependencies are documents and tracked for risk management.
  • Identify and track major milestones, gates, decision points and other project events.
  • Identify, manage, communicate and present critical paths.
  • Set and maintain the schedule baseline, track and communicate all changes to the baselined schedule on a weekly basis.
  • Perform schedule estimating through elicitation of team members and other stakeholders to capture estimations of new work, updated actuals and remaining work.
  • Champion and support continuous Risk Mitigation and Issue Management through schedule analysis.
  • Drive innovation and champion best practices across the scheduling team and program team.
  • Develop schedule version control processes, policies, procedures and ensure they are followed during the development and maintenance of schedulers.
  • Generate weekly suite of schedule projects and reports including full IMS views, summary views, critical paths, planned vs actual work and various schedule metrics.

Experience/Qualifications:


  • Scheduling/Planning experience. Desirably in an Automotive setting. If not then Manufacturing/Engineering essential.
  • Understanding of cross site, enterprise level planning and implementation practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in team environment.
  • Broad knowledge of Project Management.
  • Excellent Scheduling technical abilities.
  • In depth knowledge of Microsoft Projects.
  • Experience working across contract and location boundaries is desirable.

How to Apply:


Why work with Proactive?
Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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