Job title: Planning Manager
Location: Scotstoun
Salary: Up to £59,000 depending on experience and skills
What you’ll be doing:
- Manage & maintain the programme suite of integrated plans and project networks for each discipline and provide a clear analysis of critical path and potential programme issues.
- Maintain the quality of programme activities ensuring logic, budgets and durations etc. which affect the integrity of the plan are addressed.
- Establish and maintain a consistent and timely approach in the deployment of the quarterly look ahead
- Briefing senior management on planning philosophy and be the key point of contact to for planning matters.
- Facilitate the maintenance of Control Account (CA) schedules to support achievement of contractual requirements of supply chain and programme, together with associated budgets/schedules targets.
- Assist and support the project teams in updating their progress against their schedules and in conducting variance analysis, implementation of corrective action plans, mitigation of risk and managing baseline changes to budgets and schedule.
- Provide the business with valid / agreed resource profiles by trade, that take account of the approved programme schedules
Your skills and experiences:
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of planning techniques & processes preferably within Primavera P6
- Demonstrated ability to identify, analyse and resolve problems
- Excellent analytical skills and capable of assessing complex data and communicating it to senior management.
Desirable
- Project Management qualifications (or equivalent experience)
- Supervisory / line management experience
- Knowledge of Ship build design and manufacture processes across the build cycle and delivery requirements of engineering & supply chain to support
The Naval Ships Planning Management team:
The individual in this role will report to a Head of Project Controls and Planning and will be managing the Testing and Commissioning planning team on the Type 26 programme.
Your team will translate the contract requirements into a robust suite of programme plans within a hierarchy (level 0 to 4) that allows programme delivery teams to manage and control their schedule and budgeting targets. Additionally you will facilitate the flow down of the generic project planning processes and the flow up of integrated detailed schedules progress and status reports to the programme team
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”
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