Planning Engineer - Reading - Nuclear

Appointed by

Head of Project Planning

Job/Role Purpose

Delivering the complete planning capability
Key Accountabilities
* For ensuring the delivery of security, quality, environment, safety and health performance in accordance with the requirements of SQESH policy and SQESH management systems within all areas of this roles' responsibility

* For implementing best practice project planning policy, processes and
procedures on projects

* For accurately identifying, controlling and forecasting the time scales and
resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time
overruns

* For co-ordinating the flow of information to ensure that interfaces both
within projects are effectively managed to optimise efficiencies

* For developing and incorporating critical path, resource and programme risk analysis into resource allocations and the monitoring and reporting of progress against that planned

* For progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project
performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and
identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies

* For summarising data through the programme hierarchy from detail to summary levels

* For developing and managing a database to capture and identify work rate
norms and trends, earned value and performance indicators

* For responding to customer feedback on planning performance.

Skills
* Good technical skills including problem solving and decision making
* Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for presentation of data for analysis and review
* Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel
* Familiarity with standard office software including Project, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and Outlook
* Competence with proprietary planning software (ideally Primavera P3e version P5 or P6)

This is working on a nuclear site so you must be eligible to obtain security clearence.

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