78365 - Lead Planner - EPN
This Lead Planner will report to the Project Controls and Data Excellence Manager and will work within our Capital Programme PMO team based in our Bury St Edmunds office. You will be a permanent employee.
You will attract a salary of 71,914 plus car and a bonus of 3%.
Close Date:.14/02/2024
We also provide the following additional benefits
- Annual Leave
- Personal Pension Plan - Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
- Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
- Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Occupational Health support
- Switched On - scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
- Discounted access to sports and social clubs
- Employee Assistance Programme.
Job Purpose:
Drive and deliver the schedule and planning activity within the region supporting the Portfolio Manager, Programme Managers, Project Managers and Planning team in managing the project delivery schedules of all projects, and the coordination of these projects into a regional or business delivery schedule. Support Project Controls and Data Excellence Manager and System planning resources & Compliance Manager in managing data integrity of major project delivery schedules and the coordination of these into regional and portfolio of works.
Provide schedule impact assessment information to support the project and portfolio change control and risk processes. Validate suppliers schedule impact assessment submissions to support the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers' contract baselines.
Dimension:
One of the UK Power Networks Capital Programme DNO's
Approximate annual expenditure of 110m, with circa 150 live projects
Principal Accountabilities:
- Work together with the Portfolio Manager, Programme Managers, Project Managers and Planning team, and suppliers to ensure approved contract baseline schedules are established and maintained (following Project Control handbook and Contract Change procedure)
- Manage the daily activity of P6 planners within the DNO including project allocation, training and development plans. All impacted programme and governance baseline changes will need to be reviewed for their team's portfolio.
- Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates.
- Oversee the progressing programmes, monitoring, and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings, and identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies
- Accountable for the team's input into the monthly reporting requirements by supporting the needs of the Reporting Manager.
- Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, schedule logic, float allocation and critical path identification within suppliers' submissions to support UK Power Networks contract programme approval obligations.
- Maintain schedules in Primavera P6 and consistency / alignment with approved UK Power Networks WBS/OBS
- Manage others to maintain P6 schedules to the required standard
- Provide accurate Programme data including the recording the actual cost into P6, to meet UK Power Networks Earned Value Management reporting requirements.
- Maintain currency of Programme plans and schedules at Level 4 and below where not assigned to a third-party (supplier)
- Support / facilitate schedule risk analysis on a periodic basis.
- Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates.
- Work with Risk Managers and programme teams to identify and incorporate risk mitigating actions into the planned work scope and to incorporate appropriate time/cost contingency levels across the baseline schedules.
- Lead/facilitate collaborative planning workshops and provide presentations, coaching and facilitation in the use of Primavera software.
- Achieve compliance with UK Power Networks project delivery and programme/programme governance procedures.
- Identify, control, and forecast the time scales and resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time overruns.
- Co-ordinating the flow of information to ensure that interfaces within projects are managed to increase efficiency
- Oversee the progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies
- Manage schedules to capture and identify work rate norms and trends, earned value and performance indicators.
- Work with and provide support for colleagues in project teams including regular site visits to major/critical projects.
- Obtain agreement to the schedule from project teams and co-ordinate
- schedule interfaces between the different control areas.
- Work with the project cost/ risk engineer and estimator to provide a seamless service.
- Lead on rolling out any changes to process to the planning team.
Qualifications:
- Engineering-based degree or equivalent, programme management qualification (APMP) and experience maintaining programme performance baselines and their utilisation in generating earned value-based management information
- Experience of complex construction programmes using PrimaveraP6 within multi-disciplined environments would be beneficial.
Experience:
- Management experience on Major Projects
- Manage a team of planners
- Excellent technical skills.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills . Communicate with all levels both internal and external personnel
- Good oral, written and presentational skills with experience with presentation of data for analysis and review
- Familiarity with standard office software including Project, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and Outlook
- Competence and experience with P6 planning software specifically
- Work with team to obtain information and commitment to formulating schedule whilst commanding respect from all partners through technical and personal credibility.
- Experience reviewing schedule impact assessments and extension of time disputes.
Nature and Scope:
Manage scheduling activity for specific Portfolio programmes, and coordinating and driving the input of Portfolio Manager, Programme Managers, Project Managers and Planning team to ensure that those schedules are accurate and up to date.
Provide schedule impact assessment information to support the project/portfolio change control and risk processes and validation of suppliers schedule impact assessment submissions to support the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers' contract baselines.