Project Planner

About the Role: This exciting role involves creating and maintaining project schedules for various projects or programmes, ensuring efficient progress and resource management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, outlining tasks, milestones, deadlines, and dependencies.
• Collaborate with the Project Risk Manager to integrate identified risks and mitigations into project schedules.
• Work closely with the Project Manager, Project Engineering Lead, and Scrum Master to monitor task progress and reflect accurate updates in the schedules.
• Support short-term and long-term resource forecasting.
• Dynamically update project schedules to reflect accurate resource allocations, risk materialization, emergent work, and contract changes.
• Monitor project timelines and make necessary adjustments to ensure timely completion.
• Provide regular reports and updates to the project management team, clearly explaining the impacts of project events and presenting options or decision points.

Qualifications and Skills Required:

• Excellent knowledge of project management tools, including Microsoft Project.
• Experience in planning complex projects within a multi-discipline development environment.
• Understanding of project risk management and its impact on scheduling and planning.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid delivery methodologies is desirable.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong team player with enthusiasm, drive, and motivation.
• Experience working within a team-based, multi-discipline development environment.