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Morson Talent currently have an exciting new position for a Planner to join our prestigious Aerospace client based in Yeovil. This is an initial 12 month contract.
Job Responsibility:
Design and maintain the project schedule in accordance planning and control processes and contract requirements, ensuring the integrity of the planning outputs throughout the project life cycle through direct liaison with all key stakeholders
Prepare required reports to support schedule and cost control, identifying issues and potential solutions with key stakeholders/ IPT Lead to establish corrective actions
Executing all activities in accordance with policy, procedure and processes
Develop and implement the programme or project schedule (and SAP Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)) in accordance with the Contracted scope, delivery dates, Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM), financial baseline
If multiple sub projects exist, coordinate, control and integrate the interfaces creating logical links and maintaining updates, applying earned value techniques where applicable
Maintain and control the programme or project schedule baseline (dates and budgets) to reflect any contracted amendments
Manage the approval and communication of these changes in accordance with procedures
Direct the timely processing of schedule updates
Monitor the accuracy of project schedules and version control changes
Work with the key stakeholders/IPT leads to drive the quality of the programme or project schedule
Identify problems and provide support to improve processes to ensure the integrity of the data
Engage with cost centre managers to manage tasks and Function specific milestones used to measure Function performance
Coordinate with the Key Stakeholders customer change proposals, capturing in a register and collating cost impacts for pricing
Monitor SAP work packages and planning packages to ensure all have proper baselines, have up to date forecast dates for start and finish of the task and that the budgets and EACs are correct
Ensure tasks are opened and closed on time and ensure planning packages are broken out as and when required
Assess progress, track and analyse the impact of the programme or project schedule forecast changes (dates and budgets) to identify threats at the earliest opportunity
Publish the schedule and ensure stakeholders are informed about changes
Perform critical path and ‘what if analysis, including the development of work-around plans, capturing, monitoring and driving associated actions
Update the plans identifying where contingency reserve has been utilised and inform the risk team when loaded into SAP
Track, analyse and produce reports to confirm the programme or project cost and schedule performance, coordinating variance analysis and driving corrective actions (including resource analysis)
Prepare and present monthly CPR data
Be able to articulate changes from month to month and what schedule and costs impacts this will incur working closely with the functional departments to ensure accuracy
Raise Baseline Change Requests (BCR’s) for any contract changes that are introduced into the Level 2 schedules and ensure that tasks are planned and forecast in accordance with company guidelines
Work to develop and continuously improve the planning and reporting processes within the business to ensure best practice
Generate purchase requisitions and perform receipts ensuring alignment to schedule procurement requirements
Attend monthly meetings for associated project(s) to ensure understanding of overall progress and developments
Flexibility to deploy in other areas
Requirements:
Good knowledge of company products and organisation
Good written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work effectively within a team setting and also to provide leadership when required
Effective & persuasive in building a network of contacts, creating strong relationships with the performing functional areas
Proficient in the use of SAP and Microsoft Project (as core planning tool) and other common Microsoft packages
Excellent analytical and planning skills with good attention to detail
Ability to learn quickly and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
Ability to maintain a clear focus on goals & priorities
Excellent organisational and time management skills
Experienced in the planning and scheduling of complex tasks within an aerospace or similar industrial environment