National Grid Limited

Head of UK Planning

Responsible for developing client programmes for electricity and gas infrastructure projects which are compliant to NEC3. 

Schedules developed from directional setting, and cost loaded / out-turn prices developed.  Critical path established in advance of tendering. 

Tender programmes reviewed against submissions from contractors, strengths and weakness to NEC compliance is assessed, and contractors awarded. 

-The production of pre-tender cost estimates for electricity transmission projects, with a high focus being applied to transmission via extra high voltage cables

-The production of cost and scheduling models with the use of expert judgement and historic data

-The development of cost estimation models to reduce the resource time required for estimation.

-The identification of the independent variables to which cost is highly sensitive is central to this

-The use of EclipseCS estimating software

My role at National Grid was to continue to provide the services as per my time as a contractor supplied from Logikal Projects. In addition, I contributed to data analysis for: stakeholder management, key performance indices, and National Grid planning process improvements. I produced managerial plans for increasing the maturity of work conducted by the scheduling team for the Electricity Transmission Project Controls function. I became a skilled user of Primavera P6 during this role.