Project Planner

Overview

As Project Planner you will create and maintain integrated schedules across SEA portfolios, supporting bid baselines and delivery baselines. You’ll provide schedule analysis, reporting, and risk-aware insights to help cross-functional teams make timely decisions. The role combines planning, performance measurement, and dependency management within a high-assurance environment. This is a flexible, hybrid role located at Beckington, Bristol, or Barnstaple with a focus on protecting what matters.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
• Group Pension Plan with up to 8% employer contribution
• Wellbeing Centre

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain detailed, logically linked project schedules (including master schedules)
• Develop and maintain Performance Measurement Baselines at bid stage and during delivery baselining
• Provide schedule analysis, progress reporting and performance insight for evidence-based decisions
• Identify schedule risks, opportunities, assumptions, and dependencies; support recovery or mitigation actions

Key requirements

• Demonstrable project planning and scheduling experience on complex programmes or projects
• Experience developing and maintaining logic-linked schedules in Microsoft Project or an equivalent enterprise tool
• Experience with progress measurement, forecast maintenance, critical-path analysis and schedule performance reporting
• Working knowledge of integrated project controls and relationships between scope, schedule, resource, cost, risk and change
• Experience supporting baseline development, change control and re-baselining in a controlled environment
• Desirable: engineering, defence, maritime or other high-assurance delivery background
• Desirable: APM PMQ, APMG Project Planning and Control qualification or equivalent
• Desirable: Earned Value Management, schedule risk analysis, Acumen Fuse, Power BI or equivalent tools

• Microsoft Project or equivalent enterprise scheduling tool
• Earned Value Management
• Acumen Fuse
• Power BI

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