James Bate
I am a self-motivated professional who excels when working in a team environment. I am adept at working to tight deadlines using my skills, experience and knowledge to achieve the requirements of the role. I enjoy a challenge and have the ability to influence others to ring the overall benefit to a project or a client. I have a track record of planning on high profile, complex projects over my time in the rail sector, as well as vast transferable experience within other industries.
Within my career I have become an effective communicator with a defined ability to recognise details that have time and cost implications within rail project activities and use this knowledge to add value to the planning information as well as articulating this information to all stakeholders.
Expertise:
- Planning Experience
- Planning Tools: Primavera V5 and V6.2 to 6.7, MS Project 2003 – 2007; Pertmaster version 8.
- Fully cost and resource plans
- Incorporate subcontractor plans into master plans
- Critical Path Analysis
- Export Data Into Excel to produce s-curves and histograms
- Run ‘What if scenarios’
- Experience of planning for Electrification, Signalling and OLE.
- Worked on Tender and contract programmes
- Resource planning for internal and subcontractors
- Experience of possession and isolation planning
- Resource profiling
- Cost control/Earned value analysis
- Set up detailed plans and assign budgeted costs and resources
- Baseline projects
- Update plans with actuals and analyse actual cost against budgeted cost
- Reporting: weekly reports, construction reports, run earned value reports/update S-curves, progress reporting
- Hold weekly progress meetings (CPM) to ascertain plan progress and issues
- Hold reviews with the project manager and programme manager to agree progress reports
- Risk and issue management including setup risk and issue register
- Risk analysis on hourly plans for amber worksites, using Pertmaster for QSRA purposes
- Chair T-18 planning meetings and produce the T-18 report
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