Planner P6

Position Primavera P6 Planner
Reporting to Client Delivery Manager
Location Chatham, Kent
Department UKPN Services Client Delivery
Employment Period Contract/Temp 6 months

Job Purpose
Driving and delivering the schedule and planning activity within the Chatham SPN region. Supporting the Programme Manager and Project Managers in managing the project delivery schedules of all projects, and the coordination of these projects into a sub-programme of works.

Provide schedule impact assessment information in support of the project and portfolio change control and risk processes. Validate suppliers schedule impact assessment submissions in support of the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers contract baselines.

Principal Accountabilities
• Working in conjunction with the Programme Managers, Project Managers and suppliers, ensure approved contract baseline schedules are established and maintained (in line with Contract Change procedure)
• Manage the activity of P6 planners within the Services Teams.
• Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, schedule logic, ?oat allocation and critical path identi?cation within suppliers submissions in support of UK Power Networks contract programme approval obligations.
• Maintain schedules in Primavera P6 and consistency / alignment with approved UK Power Networks Services WBS/OBS
• Manage others to maintain P6 schedules to the required standard
• Provide accurate and timely Programme data to meet UK Power Network Services reporting requirements supporting Earned Value Management reporting.
• 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 Network Services project delivery and programme/programme governance procedures.
• Accurately identifying, controlling and forecasting the time scales and resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time overruns.
• Co-ordinating the ?ow of information to ensure that interfaces within projects are e?ectively managed to optimise e?ciencies
• Overseeing the progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies
• Develop and manage a database to capture and identify work rate norms and trends, earned value and performance indicators
• Work with, manage and provide support for colleagues in project teams Obtain buy-in to the schedule from project teams and co-ordinate schedule interfaces between the di?erent control areas
• Work closely with the project cost/ risk engineer and estimator to provide a seamless service

Organisation
• Will be focused on value planning, ensuring full consultation with all planning stakeholders
• Strive for continuous improvement in implementation standards and costs
• Develop plans which eliminate and reduce risks and maximize resource efficiency

Skills, Quali?cations and Experience
Quali?cations:
• Engineering based degree or equivalent is desirable project management quali?cation (such as APMP or Prince2) and extensive experience of maintaining programme performance baselines and their utilisation in generating earned value based management information
• Experience of complex construction programmes using Primavera P6 within multi-disciplined environments would be bene?cial.

Skills and Experience:
• Management experience on Major Projects
• Excellent technical skills including problem solving and decision making
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure e?ective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel
• Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for presentation of data for analysis and review
• Familiarity with standard o?ce software including Project, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and Outlook Competence and signi?cant experience with P6 planning software speci?cally
• Interface with team to obtain information and commitment to formulating schedule whilst commanding respect from all stakeholders through technical and personal credibility

Nature and Scope
Managing scheduling activity for speci?c sub-programmes, and coordinating and driving the input of Programme Manager s and Project Manager s to ensure that those schedules are accurate and up-to-date. Provide schedule impact assessment information in support of the project/portfolio change control and risk processes and validation of suppliers schedule impact assessment submissions in support of the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers contract baselines.