Project Planner

Project Planner – 12 month contract

Location: Oxford. Salary: £46.30 per hour (inside IR35).

As the Project Planner you will work with a market‑leading Defence and Aerospace company, supporting their Customisation and Development departments.

Responsibilities

• Support the Customisation and Development departments in creating and maintaining resourced project plans, ensuring compliance with project control standards and procedures.
• Monitor progress against plans and develop recovery strategies as necessary, escalating to the Project Manager where required.
• Provide timely, accurate reporting on progress against project plans to the PMO Manager and Project Managers.
• Ensure that change control, risk management and cost‑controlling procedures are followed by Project Managers.
• Participate in planning and preparation of project management events and workshops.
• Lead projects to determine future procedures, methods and tools within the company.

Qualifications & Skills

• Expert level experience using Primavera P6.
• Experience across the full project development lifecycle, including formal gate reviews.
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid project management and planning methodologies.
• Experience in an engineering environment (design, manufacture, installation).
• Ability to manage design disciplines to develop and maintain resourced project plans.
• Proficiency in compiling and updating Gantt charts and understanding critical path analysis.
• Experience with resource allocation and capacity planning.
• Familiarity with standard reporting metrics, including KPIs such as SPI and CPI.
• Application of risk management in project planning.
• Ability to prioritise complex work within constrained timelines.
• Experience with Google Suite of programmes.

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