We are recruiting for a SC Cleared Senior Planner for a leading Defence organisation based in Stevenage.
This is a Hybrid role with 3 days a week on site, 2 days WFH.

You must have active transferrable UK SC Clearance for this role.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Integrated Planning Manager/Project Planner to support major programmes, growth projects and strategic campaigns.

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

This is an umbrella contract, the role is Inside IR35.