Thales

Thales

Planning Manager, Thales, FFG Upgrade

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Experience Hours (Planning & Scheduling)
8200
Experience Hours (Cost Management)
3150

Led a team of six planners and three schedulers to ensure all activities relating to FFG installation were planned, scheduled, monitored and controlled in a cost and schedule effective manner.  Ensure measurement of progress through appropriate systems and processes and actively address situations of significant deviations from plan in coordination with Project Manager. Maintain cost and schedule visibility to all levels of management.

Specific Responsibilities

Thales Planning Manager

Planning Manager - Glasgow
Develop and maintain all Design & Build Telecoms infrastructure plans for Scottish Division of Racal Telecom which went on to become Thales.
Senior Planning Engineer across the company but held the post of planning manager as a throwback to the Britsih Rail Telecoms era.

Programme Planner, Thales, Various Comms Projects

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To provide assistance in preparation of Work Breakdown Structures.
· Generate and maintain multi-level programme plans and schedules, using the Primavera toolsets (and sometimes Microsoft Project).
· Collate data relating to progress against the schedule, and perform Estimate to Complete (ETC) exercises.
· To produce, maintain and consolidate Resource Load Forecasts (including Programmes, Prospects, Bids, Private Venture and overhead bookings) on a monthly basis.
· Produce load charts for skill types and individuals in Engineering, so that overloads and underloads can be managed