Location
G&T London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
We are currently looking for an Associate Planner to support the growth of the business and the continued delivery of world class service to our diverse client base. Working within a dynamic capital programmes team, this is an exciting opportunity to work with high profile clients on large scale commercial projects. The ideal candidate will thrive on challenge and be comfortable in client facing roles, being both eager to learn and develop whilst assisting to drive forward our position as an industry leader. Your attention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to collaborate and work autonomously with various stakeholders will be important to your success in the role. There are also opportunities to be involved in market leading initiatives, utilising emerging scheduling cloud technology, and to play a role in our sector communities, specialist forums, and business development.

As an Associate Planner you will develop, implement and deliver effective planning services across a variety of projects. Key tasks will include:
- Schedule Development: Develop, update and maintain detailed project schedules using planning tools such as Primavera P6 (desired) and/or Microsoft Project. Define and maintain a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) of deliverables that are logically linked and be able to articulate key milestones, interdependencies and critical path. Develop and apply installation rates to quantity take-offs to produce realistic schedules.
- Progress Monitoring: Track project performance and progress against baseline schedule(s). Support programme assessment including time impact analysis, delay analysis, and evaluation of compensation events and extensions of time. Conduct and articulate critical path and variance analysis to identify deviations and recovery actions. Review contractor schedules for acceptance and provide recommendations.
- Cost Management: Work closely with the Cost Management function to generate an integrated Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS). Monitor physical progress against baseline and forecast budget, identifying remaining work against the Estimate Cost to Complete (ETC). Collaboratively develop and maintain forecasts of resource requirements in line with cost estimates.
- Risk and Change Management: Contribute to schedule risk analysis and scenario planning. Assess time impact change requests and support the change control process.
- Reporting: Evaluate quantities, labour hours, staffing profiles, and schedule logic at discipline or trade level. Produce discipline-specific progress, productivity, and performance reports. Produce schedule reports and look-ahead plans that contribute to BI dashboards and articulate progress metrics for internal and external stakeholders. Articulate metrics associated with Earned Value Management (EVM) and their effect on project timelines.
- Coordination and Communication: Strong communicator at all levels, able to lead workshops, extract information from project teams and present to senior management. Experience working with multiple senior stakeholders with competing interests. Ability to translate and distil complex data into clear and engaging messages and reports. Able to plan and structure reports and presentations to convey information concisely.

Experience
- Providing planning services on major capital projects or programmes of £100m+ including live operational environments.
- Experience in nuclear, energy, rail, aviation, utilities, highways, defence or other major infrastructure sectors is particularly relevant.
- Proven hands-on experience managing elements of a project or programme as part of a PMO or site environment, able to work independently with supervision.
- Demonstrable experience developing and updating schedules correlating project change logs and risk registers.
- Experience monitoring and maintaining forecast schedules against a baseline.
- Experience delivering or supporting delivery of dashboard style reports using Excel and/or Power BI.
- Strong construction industry knowledge and understanding of construction project lifecycles (design through commissioning).
- Competent user of scheduling software (Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project) and Microsoft Office suite.
- Familiarity with standard forms of construction contracts (e.g. NEC).

About you
- Strong communication skills, able to liaise with stakeholders at all levels, lead workshops and present to senior project or programme management.
- Ability to build strong client relationships and network effectively.
- Experience working with multiple senior stakeholders with competing interests.
- Ability to translate and distil data into clear and engaging messages and reports.
- Excellent organisational, planning and proactive time management skills.
- Self-motivated, able to achieve deliverables and objectives with minimal supervision.
- Motivated and ambitious.
- Able to understand client requirements and communicate effectively to line management or partners.
- Able to deliver high quality work within challenging timeframes in a consultancy environment.

Qualifications
- Proven competency in scheduling software such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
- Knowledge of construction contracts and project lifecycle processes.