Role: Project Planner REF 81012
Contract Length: 90 working days
Location: Hybrid - 3 days in Bristol, occasional travel to Portsmouth
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Project Planner for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PROJECT PLANNER
- Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to understand project objectives and requirements.
- Develop comprehensive project plans, including defining project scope, deliverables, tasks, and timelines.
- Create detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 software.
- Identify critical path activities and dependencies to optimise project timelines.
- Assess resource requirements and allocating personnel, equipment, and materials for project tasks.
- Ensure optimal resource utilisation and avoiding overallocation.
- Continue monitoring project progress and performance against the established schedule.
- Identify potential delays or risks and implement corrective actions.
- Generate regular progress reports and present them to project managers and stakeholders.
- Provide updates on project status, milestones, and variances from the original plan.
- Assist in identifying potential risks and uncertainties that could impact project timelines.
- Collaborate with project teams to develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Manage changes to the project schedule resulting from scope changes or unforeseen events.
- Assess the impact of changes on project timelines and communicating adjustments to stakeholders.
- Communicate with project managers, team members, and stakeholders to ensure alignment with the project schedule
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PROJECT PLANNER
- Able to craft and own a detailed project schedule, Level 1 plan, and work breakdown structure
- Ability to contribute to project milestones against demanding performance, cost, and time constraints
- Comfort in working with minimal daily supervision to deliver key outputs
- Able to look ahead and anticipate challenges, craft solutions, and resolve them, referring to the Project manager for guidance
- Comfortable working in the Cat A project delivery environment, understand the assurance and scrutiny requirements required and able to work through delivery friction at pace
- Able to use in place IT systems to deliver effective compliant staff work that stands 2* scrutiny
- Experience of MS Suite of tools / DE&S project management and risk tools
- DE&S project management delivery experience
- Managing Successful Programs (MSP)
- APMP – Project Management
- PRINCE 2
- APMP - Management of Risk (MoR)
- Either APMP or PRINCE 2, MSP would be a nice to have as would be MoR
If you are a Project Planner, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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