Project Planning Capability Lead

Techniche Global are supporting an engineering defence contractor to appoint a Project Planning Capability Lead responsible for supporting the integration of new enterprise level planning & scheduling management toolsets, ensuring standardised and co-ordinate use across the entire portfolio.,

• Reporting to the Head of PM&PC, you will work with the other Discipline Leads (Cost, Risk, Project Controls & Project Management) to ensure best practice approaches, governance and techniques, in line with Group policies, are embedded as part of our local operating model(s) and project delivery lifecycle focusing on instilling strong foundations and forward looking, proactive approaches to delivery.


• Leading the community of individuals specialised in planning & scheduling, including professional development, mentoring and coaching.


• You will also work with the PM&PC Function Operations Lead to generate a pipeline of suitably qualified and experienced planning & scheduling professionals in line with related delivery demand across the portfolio.


• Shape the future of project planning & scheduling within our business.
  
  Essential experience of the Project Planning Capability Lead:


• Significant experience of project planning & scheduling management, control techniques and approaches.


• Significant experience in the use, administration and database maintenance of scheduling toolsets such as P6 (preferred) and MSP.


• Comprehensive experience of delivering/leading planning & scheduling management within projects and programmes for large and technically complex equipment or system delivery contracts.


• Experience of using, or working alongside, related Project Controls software tools (or similar) such as Active Risk Manager, RiskHive, Deltec Cobra, Safran or Primavera Risk Analyser etc.


• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to interact successfully at all levels.


• Experience of using ERP systems, including IFS (or similar) is desirable., We value difference and we don t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
  
  Company Benefits


• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance


• Employee share scheme


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement


• Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.