P6 Planner - Water Sector

People Group are looking to recruit a Project Planner from a Water background to work for a leading service provider in the water and wastewater infrastructure sectors in the UK.

Position: P6 Project Planner 
Rate: £430 Inside IR35
Location: Fareham
Duration: 4 months

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Project Schedules reflecting the remitted Scope. This will include integrating supply chain, Portsmouth Water and possibly 3d party client activities, to ensure the full scope is captured.
• Establish the Performance Management Baseline, Where applicable based on the clause 14 from the supplier and incorporating time risk as identified via QSRA.
• Progressing the schedules fortnightly. Identify variances from baseline and work with the project teams to develop recovery plans.
• Analyse the supplier schedules from a quality perspective - e.g. coding Logic, realistic duration's - and ensure any actions are closed.
• Become an intrinsic part of the Project Management team ensuring stakeholders are clear on what needs to be produced and when,any potential slippage and what can be done to mitigate the slippage
• Attend periodic/key stakeholder meetings representing the planning functions
• Develop what-if scenarios as required to support future phase development
• Providing schedule data and reports as required to key stakeholders
• Supporting teams with monitoring, control, assurance, risk and value activities
• Must have significant experience of primavera, ideally on high profile/risk, water projects.

Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Proven experience in the successful scheduling of Water Projects 
• Knowledge of railway investment planning systems.
• Experience of using a number of project management scheduling tools including Primavera P6. 
• Six Sigma Yellow Belt