Assistant Construction Planner

Job: Assistant Planner

Location: Bury St Edmunds

Job Type: Permanent

Job Description

Support the DNO Lead Planners and delivery teams by collecting progress data and updating P6 schedules following the monthly performance reporting schedule. Work across portfolios to provide targeted effort where demand dictates.

Perform data integrity checks on their own projects and on the wider data set in P6, identifying missing or incorrect project data. Assist the Planning Resource and System Compliance Manager to improve data hygiene in P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud.

Responsibilities

•Learn and improve own capability in Primavera P6 to manage major projects. Expectation of self-led and self-motivated learning.

•Maintain schedules in Primavera P6 and consistency with approved UK Power Networks WBS/OBS/CBS

•Maintain P6 schedules to the required standard following the Project Control Handbook

•Provide accurate programme data to meet UK Power Networks project control requirements; support Earned Value Management reporting.

•Maintain currency of programme plans and schedules following the Capital Programme performance reporting timetable

•With the assistance of other planners, provide schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates.

•Support other planners oversee the progressing programmes.

•Support schedule risk analysis where required by the delivery team

•Work with the Lead Planners to identify the correct data entry requirements for each project and taking responsibility for cost and progress data on the full programme of assigned projects

•Influence project partners to ensure submission of progress and milestone achievement updates

•Learn and subsequently maintain compliance with UK Power Networks project delivery and programme governance procedures.

•Flag any schedule anomalies to the relevant Planner, including data entry errors or project performance outside of accepted tolerances.

•Obtain support to the schedule from project teams and co-ordinate schedule interfaces between the different control areas.

• Work with the commercial team to ensure alignment of cost information across all systems and reports (SAP, Unifier, P6)

• Work with the local finance team for monitoring relevant project and programme information, P6 data integrity, income, expenditure.

Requirements

•Knowledge of work scheduling for construction projects; experience with Primavera P6, MS Project or similar packages desirable

•Knowledge of the principles of Earned Value Management; able to apply these principles to organise and improve project data sets

•Work with multiple team members, ensuring regular updates and data entry as part of a monthly performance reporting schedule

•Familiarity with database and data organisation principles

•We ask that you are able to communicate with a large community of internal and external personnel

•Good oral, written and presentational skills with experience presenting data for analysis and review

•Familiarity with standard office software including Project, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook

•Work with team to obtain information and commitment to formulating schedule whilst commanding respect from all team members through technical and personal credibility

Qualifications

•Foundation level qualification in project management / control (such as APM or Prince2) is desirable