Planning & Scheduling Lead

Austin Fraser; Newbury; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Planning & Scheduling Lead

Contract - inside ir35

MOD/Defence sector.

High level security clearance is requirement or ability to obtain this.

Scope / Task Deliverables

1. Act as technical lead, develop, maintain, and validate integrated 'resource-loaded' plans that account for facility and project activity to provide an overview of current and planned future work activity at individual resource level, to inform strategic management discussions.
2. Develop and manage plans for production maintenance outages and ensure incorporation into the integrated plan.
3. Engage with Project Managers, plan owners, and key Stakeholders to ensure the integration of individual facility and project programmes of work into an Integrated Plan and provide output data required by key Stakeholders.
4. Work closely with the Facility Operations and programme leadership to ensure alignment and integration of key programme planning materials.
5. Ensure all business and project risks are incorporated into the Integrated Plan and engage Risk Manager to provide impact scenario reporting.
6. Develop the Integrated Plan to provide Facility and projects resource metrics, highlighting pinch points, over-allocation and/or delivery risks & business opportunities.
7. Lead on assessment of schedule risk, identification of opportunities to optimise delivery and provide performance reporting to enhance programme management understanding on dependencies and limitations.

Methodology: The Principal Planning is expected to:

1. Deliver role in accordance with procedures and industry best practice.
2. Act as the schedule integrator for the project, pulling together multiple delivery schedules into a single Integrated Master Schedule.
3. Provide detailed planning where there is not a suitable delivery schedule available.