MERITUS Talent are working in partnership with one of the world's leading aerospace and defence companies for the recruitment of a Integrated Planning Manager to join their offices in Stevenage.
Integrated Planning Manager / Project Manager - Stevenage - Contract - 12 months - £40ph - INSIDE IR35 - Hybrid (3/2) - SC Clearance
Role Overview
We are looking for an Integrated Planning Manager / Project Planner to join in Stevenage. You will support the major programmes, growth projects and strategic campaigns/bids within Space Digital UK, US & Asia.
Responsibilities
- Creation, maintenance and timely delivery of the top level and lower level schedules, and Integrated Project Team (IPT) schedules
- Analysing project costs versus project forward load in conjunction with resource tracking / management on behalf of the Project Manager
- Payment Milestone tracking
- Risk analysis tracking
- Change Control
- Support management consolidation, judgement, recommendations and the timely provision of all necessary management data and reporting information
- Provide consolidated project reports on a monthly and quarterly basis to senior management including special focus reports as required
- Create and maintain standardised templates for schedules and project reporting
- Project administration support to the Project Manager and the project team
Skill Set
Essential
- Experienced in working within a Project Management, including scheduling, logic checking, Earned Value and Risk Management
- Knowledge of planning best practice, e.g. logic linking/dependencies, resource scheduling, preforming schedule health checks, critical Path Analysis, and work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Planning to stage boundaries - contingency planning
- Good knowledge/understanding of Project Management methodologies.
- Excellent knowledge and proficient use of both MS Project Professional & Primavera P6 Professional
The successful candidate will need to have active or transferrable UK SC Security Clearance to undertake the role.