Project Planner

About the role

We’re looking for a Project Planner to join our Programme Management team at our Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a 4-day working week Monday - Thursday and hybrid working. Onsite working days are Monday and Tuesday, with Wednesday and Thursday typically worked from home subject to business needs.

You’ll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end planning lifecycle - from proposal to execution - helping deliver some of the UK’s most complex and innovative engineering programmes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Maintain the end-to-end lifecycle of planning and schedule management in support of programme capture and execution.
• Support proposal preparation planning including development of planning artefacts for solicitation response. Interfaces with program management, senior management and the contractual customer as the programs planning integrator.
• Support the validation of cost and schedule integration for effective program performance management.
• Support the vertical and horizontal integration between all schedules and other program artefacts compliant with LM's command media.
• Support the modelling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline.
• Supports the resolution of schedule conflicts, develops and implements work-around strategies and tactical alternatives.
• Utilises performance and health metrics to communicate actions to the programme team resulting in improved program performance.
• Maintenance and status updates of the IMS on a weekly & monthly basis.
• Support to the Maintenance of the Performance Measurement Baseline.
• Support to the Project Business Rhythm.
• Support to the generation of Schedule Information for client and management reviews.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• 4-day working week (Mon-Thu) - enjoy a true work-life balance.
• Hybrid working - typically 2 days onsite, 2 days remote.
• Collaborative culture - work alongside some of the brightest minds in UK engineering.
• Be part of an organisation delivering cutting-edge Defence and technology programmes that make a real impact.

The successful candidate must achieve the appropriate level (DV) of security clearance.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Experience as a Project Planner, Project Co-oridator or similar PMO / Planning role
• A confident individual who will ensure that best planning practice is always adhered to, even in occasional pressurised situations
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools, systems, and processes

Desired Skills

• Experience of Primavera P6
• SAP cost planning & reporting
• Background in Defence, MoD, or other complex engineering environments