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Project Planner
Job Posted: 6 hours ago
Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Staffordshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
My Defence Maritime client is seeking a Project Planner to join their programmes team and play a pivotal role in delivering complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects!
You will be responsible for developing integrated master schedules, driving planning excellence, and ensuring alignment across project teams, stakeholders, and delivery frameworks. This is a key position supporting major defence programmes with real national impact...
Key Responsibilities -
* Develop and manage high-quality, fully integrated master schedules using Microsoft Project Professional
* Identify, maintain, and communicate the critical path; conduct scenario planning for resourcing and phasing decisions
* Collaborate with IPT teams (Project Managers, Engineers, Supply Chain) to ensure schedule accuracy and alignment with work packages, dependencies and risk mitigations
* Work with Scrum Masters to define WBS in Jira and gather task data from sprint reviews to update schedules
* Integrate engineering design, validation, and delivery milestones across complex WBS structures
* Work with risk owners to incorporate risks, treatment plans and emergent work into schedules
* Provide clear reporting on schedule performance, critical and float paths, forecasting and progress trends
* Support Agile planning cycles by aligning IMS-level activities with sprint/epic cadences
* Support senior planner in schedule governance, baseline management, change control, and schedule quality assurance
* Liaise with external customer planners to ensure alignment on data, formats and reporting expectations
* Act as a scheduling subject matter expert, promoting best practices and capability across the programme
Qualifications & Experience -
Essential
* Proven experience managing schedules on large-scale, multi-year engineering programmes (defence/aerospace/high-tech advantageous)
* Strong experience building and maintaining Integrated Master Schedules in MS Project Professional/Standard
* Solid understanding of project risk management and scheduling impacts
* Skilled at creating critical and float path views in MS Project
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including customer engagement
* Ability to work independently and collaboratively in high-performing teams
* Competent in data analysis and Excel manipulation for import into MS Project
Desirable
* Experience with Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid delivery environments; Jira familiarity preferred
* Experience with resource allocation tools and scenario modelling
* Degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
* Exposure to EVM/cost-schedule integration; APM/PMI membership a bonus
* Familiarity with DCMA assessment standards
* Experience integrating ERP tools and Oracle P6 environments
What Our Client Can Offer -
* A dynamic role driving success across strategic programmes
* Hybrid & flexible working opportunities
* Professional development and growth within a high-performing team
* The opportunity to shape and influence national defence delivery outcomes
If you're a proactive planner ready to drive clarity, structure and delivery success then I want to hear from you!
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