Lead Planner

Lead Planner

Barrow in Furness Based
53.90 hour Umbrella Inside IR35
6 Month Contract initially.

This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based Barrow in Furness. Hybrid working 2-3 days per week in Barrow.

What you'll be doing:

• Actively manage a team of Project Professionals and support them in the construction of Engineering delivery plan, as well as maintaining governance of these plans through maintenance cycles.

• Be responsible for data analytics, communicating known issues, variances, and open dependencies to all stakeholders.

• Use and apply various toolsets and application to manipulate a variety of Engineering data sets that support the team's delivery into the Engineering function.

• Oversee the alignment of Engineering Delivery to the build programme, whilst identifying misalignment and providing possible mitigation actions to key stakeholders.

• Lead and maintain Project Management and Control Processes across the teams work scope.

Skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Good understanding of the structure, organisation, processes and culture of line of business, so as to be able to support implementation of appropriate PM&C approaches
• Prior experience within a Project Controls/Project Management environment
• An ability to gather information and experience of supporting with the development of solutions and of implementation approaches
• Good experience of cross functional team integration across multiple projects
• Experience of Microsoft Office functions; Excel (the generation and manipulation of data), Outlook, PowerPoint (construction of presentations and reports) and Word
• Ability to manage and lead a team of Project professionals

Desirable

• In depth experience of Primavera P6 with knowledge of administration functions for the package
• Understanding of Stage 2/3 Engineering delivery (First Issue Outputs & Change)

For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.