Senior Planner (SC clearance)

Certain Advantage is hiring for a Senior Planner based in Stevenage

This role is on a 12-month contract basis and is hybrid.

The company:

You will support the major programmes, growth projects and strategic campaigns/bids within Space Digital UK, US & Asia.

The role:

This role is for a dynamic Senior Planner -someone ambitious and ready to make an impact. You'll be results-orientated and driven to succeed.

• Creation, maintenance and timely delivery of the top level and lower level schedules, and Integrated Project Team (IPT) schedules
• Analysing project costs versus project forward load in conjunction with resource tracking / management on behalf of the Project Manager
• Payment Milestone tracking
• Risk analysis tracking
• Change Control
• Support management consolidation, judgement, recommendations and the timely provision of all necessary management data and reporting information
• Provide consolidated project reports on a monthly and quarterly basis to senior management including special focus reports as required
• Create and maintain standardised templates for schedules and project reporting
• Project administration support to the Project Manager and the project team

The individual

• Experienced in working within a Project Management, including scheduling, logic checking, Earned Value and Risk Management
• Knowledge of planning best practice, e.g. logic linking/dependencies, resource scheduling, preforming schedule health checks, critical Path Analysis, and work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Planning to stage boundaries - contingency planning
• Good knowledge/understanding of Project Management methodologies.
• Excellent knowledge and proficient use of both MS Project Professional & Primavera P6 Professional

Does this sound like your next career move? Apply today.

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