Planning & Scheduling Lead

Contract - inside ir35

MOD/Defence sector.

High level security clearance is requirement or ability to obtain this.

Scope / Task Deliverables

• Act as technical lead, develop, maintain, and validate integrated 'resource-loaded' plans that account for facility and project activity to provide an overview of current and planned future work activity at individual resource level, to inform strategic management discussions.

• Develop and manage plans for production maintenance outages and ensure incorporation into the integrated plan.

• Engage with Project Managers, plan owners, and key Stakeholders to ensure the integration of individual facility and project programmes of work into a Integrated Plan and provide output data required by key Stakeholders.

• Work closely with the Facility Operations and programme leadership to ensure alignment and integration of key programme planning materials

• Ensure all business and project risks are incorporated into the Integrated Plan and engage Risk Manager to provide impact scenario reporting.

• Develop the Integrated Plan to provide Facility and projects resource metrics, highlighting pinch points, over-allocation and/or delivery risks & business opportunities.

• Lead on assessment of schedule risk, identification of opportunities to optimise delivery and provide performance reporting to enhance programme management understanding on dependencies and limitations.

Methodology: The Principal Planning is expected to:

• Deliver role in accordance with procedures and industry best practice.

• Act as the schedule integrator for the project, pulling together multiple delivery schedules into a single Integrated Master Schedule.

• Provide detailed planning where there is not a suitable delivery schedule available