Senior Planner

The Senior Planner establishes and maintains the overall time plan for the Project and monitors and reports performance against it.

• Prepare and maintain a robust and realistic integrated master schedule for the Euston Project highlighting critical milestones relating to key activities, deliverables and interfaces.
• Clarify and maintain the visibility of programme interface requirements and dependencies; ensure that responsibilities for the management of interfaces are clearly assigned and understood.
• Collate regular and ad-hoc reports for the Project SLT to provide a timely overview of programme time performance on an exception basis.
• Develop and present regular forecasts of anticipated milestone achievements and use EVA techniques to measure trends and maintain an up-to-date view of the expected completion date for the Project as a whole; recommend Project level actions where appropriate to mitigate potential time over-runs.
• Provide advice and guidance to the project delivery team in the reviewing and challenging where appropriate sub-contractors programmes.
• Ensure that adequate, time provision is included in individual project schedules to allow for overall Programme integration.
• Ensure the effective management of the time contingency built into the Programme for programme level risks to ensure that contingency allowances reflect the current programme position.
• Establish Programme level commissioning and testing schedules taking account of project interfaces and planned completion schedules
• Ensure consistency of planning techniques and the use of common WBS at all levels of the project.

• Expert knowledge of construction techniques methods and durations
• Very strong understanding of techniques for project planning control and other facets of project control
• Expert knowledge of Primavera and similar planning software
• Strong knowledge of integrated project planning
• Expert knowledge of EVA techniques
• Ability to use schedule risk modelling software such as Pertmaster
• Strong team leader
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to “deep dive” into planning
• Comfortable with presenting at senior level
• Able to present facts clearly and simply
• Able to collaborate effectively with others to develop integrated programmes
• Ability to mentor and train subordinate staff

• Relevant experience of project planning
• Significant past experience of large projectsMAPM of formal PM/ Project controls qualification or relevant experience
• Experience in the railway environment or construction projects

• Leadership:
  Using innovation and challenge to lead by example
• Respect:
  Understanding others, recognising their value and behaving accordingly
• Safety:
  Caring for our workforce, or passengers and the public by creating an environment where no one gets hurt
• Integrity:
  Acting fairly, transparently, and consistently
• Excellence:
  Promoting innovation, development, training and continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality of our products, services and employees
• Integrity:
  Acting ethically and transparently. Demanding the best standards of integrity from its employees and collaborators.
• Trust:
  Nurturing positive relationships at all levels of the organisation and around the client by developing a strong and long term relationship based on mutual trust.
• Sustainability:
  Committed to sustainable development and to making an efficient and ethically responsible contribution to society and the environment.
• Committed to act based on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles. Equal opportunities, non-discrimination and respect for human rights are basic principles contained in the Dragados Code of Conduct that apply to all Dragados employees.