Assystem Energy & Infrastructure are recruiting for a Lead Planner to work at our customers site in Derby on a contract basis.

You will work as a Lead Planner to define planning standards, scheduling governance and assurance, implement the APly planning process and maintain Primavera P6 for the Business. You will interface with the Programme Teams to provide guidance support and monitoring throughout the programme lifecycle, facilitating the teams in providing accurate and timely management information.

Role details: 

• Job title: Lead Planner
• Contract length: 12 months 
• Location: Derby  
• Contract type: PAYE via Umbrella solution

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Planning, Scheduling (P6), and Management information System integration and support.
• Actively facilitate development and ensure the on-going maintenance of the programme schedule (Integrated Milestone Plan and Integrated Master Schedule).
• Support and develop Primavera P6 Layouts, Coding and UDFs
• Support Permissions and EPS structure
• Ensure that the scope of work being planned is fully logic linked with the wider work scope, undertake tracking, and maintain dependencies, identifying and reporting deviations and triggering exception reports as appropriate.
• Facilitate project planning, risk and opportunity meetings with programme team members.
• Assist in the development of the schedule Performance Measurement Baseline [PMB] with the project teams and the on-going management of it through the change control process.
• Collect programme status information to maintain and update schedules and issue management information as required. This will require schedule variance analysis, identification of schedule risks, issues and opportunities together with Critical Path Analysis.
• Support in the development and delivery of SRA software Training and techniques.
• Support and Develop the maturity and deployment of SRA modelling within the programmes.
• Work with the Control Account, Programme teams and key stakeholders to ensure that a credible and robust Risk Modelling process is adopted.

• Project Planning and Primavera P6 to expert level
• Experience of working in an Integrated Project Team environment ideally gained within engineering/manufacturing/Infrastructure sectors.
• Experience of leading software adoption and implementation within Project Teams.
• Experience of developing schedules of work involving multiple projects using Primavera P6, with the ability to apply sound logic when translating information into a logical sequence of events, which require fully linked dependencies
• Experience of delivering training and Working towards a related professional qualification (APM) or entry level qualification (HND, Foundation Degree or equivalent).
• Ability to deliver accurate work within service level agreements and use initiative to work through issues and barriers.
• Experience of managing several tasks simultaneously, prioritising activity to meet deadlines.

**Security clearance**

This role requires the successful candidate to hold a minimum of a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance.

Due to the nature of work this role will be delivering and for the protection of certain assets, the successful candidate has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non-ITAR country.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.