P6 Spoke Planner - Primavera P6 (ref 22102 )
- Employment Period - Permanent
- Bonus Level - 3%
- Salary Range - £27,195 to £41,240 + London Weighting+ benefits
- Closing Date - 15th October 2016
UK Power Networks is a Distribution Network Operator rated in the Sunday Times as one of the Top 25 companies to work for. It has been awarded a Gold Standard in Investors In People and has excellent benefits and a great pension scheme.
We are currently looking for an P6 Spoke Planner - Primavera P6 to support the Sub-Programme Manager and Project Manager to deliver complete schedule and planning capability within the region. This position will be based in our London Bidder Street office as well as other Alliance offices.
The successful applicant will support the PMO Planning Excellence Manager and PMO Programme Planning & Resource Manager (PP & RM) in managing major project delivery schedules and the coordination of these into regional or sub-programmes of work. Provide comprehensive milestone and cost reporting in accordance with the work breakdown and cost breakdown structures.
Provide schedule impact assessment information in support of the project and portfolio change control and risk processes. Validate suppliers schedule impact assessment submissions in support of the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers’ contract baselines.
Nature and Scope
Managing the scheduling activity for specific sub-programmes and coordinating and driving via the input of Sub-Programme Managers and Project Managers, to ensure that those schedules are accurate and up-to-date.
Principal Accountabilities
- Working in conjunction with the respective Sub-Programme Manager, Project Managers, Alliance Delivery Members (ADM) and others, ensure approved contract baseline schedules are established and maintained (in line with the Project Control Handbook (PCH) and Contract Change procedure)
- Manage the activity of P6 planners within the Alliance Sub Programme Spoke
- Maintain schedules in Primavera P6 and consistency / alignment with approved UK Power Networks WBS/OBS/CBS
- Manage others to maintain P6 schedules to the required standard and as per the PCH
- Provide accurate and timely programme data to meet ADM and UK Power Networks reporting requirements supporting Earned Value Management reporting
- Maintain currency of programme plans and schedules at Level 4 and below where not assigned to a third party (supplier)
- Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates
- Overseeing the progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies
- Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, schedule logic, float allocation and critical path identification within ADM/others’ submissions in support of UK Power Networks contract programme approval obligations.
- Work with the Risk Manager and project teams to identify and incorporate risk mitigating actions into the planned work scope as well as appropriate time/cost contingency levels across the baseline schedules
- Support / facilitate schedule risk analysis on a periodic basis
- Working with the Sub-programme Manager support the PP&RM and his team by providing programme information relevant to budget, future annual expenditure and detailed resource requirements. Enabling the interface between upstream planning with downstream delivery and providing forecast resource demand reports.
- Lead/facilitate collaborative planning workshops and provide presentations, coaching and facilitation in the use of Primavera software
- Achieve compliance with UK Power Networks project delivery and programme governance procedures
- Accurately identifying, controlling and forecasting the time scales and resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time overruns
- Work with, manage and provide support to colleagues in project teams. Co-ordinating the flow of information to ensure that interfaces within projects are effectively managed to optimise efficiencies
- Obtain buy-in to the schedule from project teams and co-ordinate schedule interfaces between the different control areas
- Work closely with the commercial team / project cost estimator and risk engineer to provide a seamless service
- Work closely with the local finance team for monitoring project and sub-programme relevant information, P6 data integrity, income, expenditure, etc.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications:
- Engineering based degree or equivalent, project management qualification such as APMP or Prince2 is desirable
Skills and Experience:
- Extensive experience using Primavera P6 on complex construction programmes
- Experience of maintaining programme performance baselines and their utilisation in generating earned value based report management
- Management experience on Major Construction Projects
- Excellent technical skills including problem solving and decision making
- Good interpersonal and communication skills to ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel
- Good oral, written and presentational skills with a particular aptitude for presentation of data for analysis and review
- Familiarity with standard office software including Project, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and Outlook
- Interface with team to obtain information and commitment to formulating schedule whilst commanding respect from all stakeholders through technical and personal credibility