Senior Planner

• Senior Planner
• Duration: 6 months +
• Rate: £500 - £600 p/d (inside IR35)
• Location: Remote working + occasional visits to Edinburgh office

Our client is a leading engineering consultancy who require a Senior Planner for National Grid.

Within this role, you will work on specific packages within a Major Offshore Project reporting to the Lead Planner.

As a Senior Planner you will be an integral part of the programme delivery team responsible for the effective implementation of project controls across a Major Energy Project or portfolio of projects.

As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you ll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role Accountabilities:

Developing baseline and detailed project schedules to support the delivery of complex engineering and construction programmes in compliance with company standards. You will be expected to manage and report on critical path analysis and assess and report and subcontractor programmes for approval by the Project Manager.

You will utilise your expert knowledge of earned value management to support the broader project controls team to deliver accurate cost forecasts for the client. You can also expect to assist Project Managers in producing monthly performance reports.

Alongside working on live contracts you will also be working on projects during the pre-contract phase to provide an expert assessment of contactors tender programmes.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience utilising Primavera P6 planning software.
• Schedule planning, forecasting and reporting.
• Construction background.
• Extensive NEC 3 / 4 and /or FIDIC contract experience
• Ideally you will have experience working within the Electrical Transmission and Distribution sector however individuals with experience working on public sector projects within a regulated environment (i.e. water, rail, aviation, nuclear etc.) are encouraged to apply
• Working as part of an integrated delivery team

For more information on this role, please contact Scarlet Wilson.