Project Planner

Nash, Buckinghamshire
Meridian Business Support
We are looking for a Project Planner to work with our prestigious client based in Yeovil. This role would suit someone who is already a Project Planner/Scheduler or someone who is working towards doing this or in a similar role. This is a temporary role contract.

You will be responsible for the implementation of the planning and control processes to support the Operations Team. Working with all the key stakeholders to ensure that any products or bids within the Aircraft Centre are planned effectively, to deadline and budget.

Key Job Accountabilities

• Produce and maintain level 2 Final Assembly plans in accordance with the Aircraft Centre planning process that takes into account the key constraints of build logic and material availability.

• Report on schedule, including financial and contractual milestones, and cost performance for all aircraft in production, providing timely information at the right level of detail for the various customers including Aircraft Centre department managers, the aircraft managers, the aircraft boards and for customers outside of the UK Aircraft Centre organisation such as programme management and finance.

• Maintain a technical labour plan in order that for all firm contracts and potential work under the control of the Aircraft Centre an estimated cost at completion and a labour profile for technical labour can be produced for all departments within the Aircraft Centre with bookers.

• Create, maintain and close SAP networks as required

• Ensure that all Operations network activities are properly loaded with accurate start and finish dates, budget hours and that activity is being correctly booked against them.

• Ensure integrity and quality of the schedules are controlled and timely implementations of baseline changes are made.

Key skills required:

• Experience of planning or scheduling is advantageous, with the ability to demonstrate an understanding of planning techniques such as work breakdown structures, dependencies, risk contingency, resource constraints and forecasting, estimating and level 1 and level 2 planning
• Computer literate with strong skills in Microsoft Excel
• Experience of MS Project is advantageous
• A qualification with a numerical based subject or equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate data to a wide range of key internal and external stakeholders.
• Financial awareness (budgets, cost to date, estimate at completion, variance, cash & turnover milestones) is desirable
• Knowledge of Earned Value techniques and processes is desirable