Senior Project Planner - Special Projects

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Project Planner to join our Special Projects 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.

As part of the Special Projects team you could be required to work onsite up to 4 days a week

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.
• Lead 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.
• Manage the validation of cost and schedule integration for effective program performance management.
• Manage the vertical and horizontal integration between all schedules and other program artefacts compliant with LM's command media.
• Manage the modelling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline.
• Manage 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.
• Manage the Maintenance of the Performance Measurement Baseline.
• Support to the Project Business Rhythm.
• Manage 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.
• 2-4 days a week onsite depending on business needs
• 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. More details can be found here

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Experience as a Project Planner, or similar PMO Planning role
• Experience of Primavera P6, or similar Planning software
• Experience of managing Resource loaded Schedules
• Experience of Earned Value Management and Critical Path Management
• 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

• Active DV clearance
• SAP cost planning & reporting
• Background in Defence, MoD, or other complex engineering environments