Project Planner
Proactive Technical Recruitment
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You'll work closely with PMO, development and other project teams to develop detailed schedules, keep these schedules current and seamlessly integrated into the IMS; detailing how a specific project is progressing and how the project contributes to overarching program requirements and objectives.
- You'll develop resource loaded project schedules using the performance work statement (PWS), technical proposal, WBS, and directions from project managers and technical leads. You'll create and maintain linkages, dependencies and inter-dependencies with related projects, ensuring internal and external dependencies are documented and tracked for risk management.
- You'll identify and track major milestones, gates, decision points, and key project events; communicating and present critical paths, setting and maintaining the schedule baseline and regularly track/ communicate all changes to the baselined schedule.
- You'll perform schedule estimating through elicitation of team members and other stakeholders to capture estimations of new work, updated actuals and remaining work, perform 'what if' scenarios within the schedule, apply critical thinking, and present alternate solutions as schedule risks arise.
- You'll champion and support continuous Risk Mitigation and Issue Management through schedule analysis, drive innovation and champion best practices and generate a weekly suite of schedule products and reports including full IMS views, summary views, critical paths, planned vs actual work, and various schedule metrics
- You're a great communicator, coordinating internal and external parties, working with customers and suppliers. You'll be involved in presentations, preparing and delivery project updates and reports.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.