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£30/hr to £35/hr
Wolverhampton, England
Contract, Variable

Project Planner

Posted by Adecco .

Project Planner

Contract: 6 Months

Location: Stafford Road, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, WV10 7EH

Hourly rate: £30 - £35.00 per hour (Umbrella)

Hours: Mon - Thurs 8- 4.45 Fri - 12

An exciting opportunity for a Project Planner has arisen within the Actuation Systems business. The role requires a highly motivated, high achieving individual reporting to Programme Director to take responsibility for strategic projects. This role will focus on Operational, Engineering and Supply Chain projects and will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver transformational projects that span multiple value streams benefits and/or are linked into one of the Collins Global Operational Sites (Bandung, Bedok, Bengaluru or Wroclaw) or the AS Wolverhampton campus. Projects will typically fall under the categories of Buy-to-Make & Make-to-Make Transfers, Operational Capability investments and Footprint transformation.

The high quality products we design, produce and service in our Actuation business allow both passengers and crew members to have a more comfortable experience and greater piece of mind during flight. What we design and manufacture works together behind the scenes to enhance the overall flight experience. We delight our customers with superior products and best-in-class customer service, yet passengers don't even know we're there - and that's how we like it!

Principal Accountabilities:

Significantly experienced Project Planner working as an individual contributor to support the Project / Programme Manager, or as an IPD Team lead for a component Control Account / Program. Significant experience of project management tools and their application across multiple phases of the lifecycle. Could potentially be a specialist in a certain element of the project discipline focusing on a suite of processes or a particular lifecycle phase. The following will form the key accountabilities of this role:

  • Support to Project Manager in key areas - relevant to lifecycle stage of the project - potentially spanning multiple phases
  • Utilises advanced Project Management Tools & Techniques
  • Maintains schedule actual dates and baseline
  • Owns and drives project control tasks on behalf of the project
  • Gathers analyses and distributes KPIs associated with the project
  • Administers key project meetings such as risk review or CMB
  • Support Project data generation for customer reviews
  • Support Project data generation for internal reviews
  • Supports governance of project via CMS
  • Key contributor to project documentation potentially compiling/writing sections of the Program Plan, Development Plan and cadence reviews
  • The successful candidate will have a comprehensive range of skills or potential including:
  • Customer focus - understand key stakeholder needs and how they are supporting them through their activities
  • Good communicator - Expresses thoughts effectively and convincingly across the IPDT and beyond to reinforce the context of the message.
  • Influence others regarding key project decisions and execution activities.
  • Highly flexible - readily respond to changes in business, management and scope of responsibilities.
  • Highly analytical approach taken to problem solving
  • Structured and methodical approach taken to execution of drumbeat project support tasks
  • Potentially a specialist in an element of project management with deep knowledge in certain area such as a phase or tool

Qualifications

  • Requires a degree (or equivalent), significant or specialist experience and a thorough understanding of the standards, processes, procedures, tools and techniques used in Project Management across multiple lifecycle phases
  • Requires experience of project-based policies/processes/tools/standards across more than one phase of lifecycle
  • Professional accreditation level (APM or equivalent): PFQ

If you feel this position would be of interest, APPLY NOW using your most up to date CV. If you do not hear back within 5 working days, please assume that unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful

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