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Jacobs Project Control - Planner/ Scheduler in Birchwood, United Kingdom
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
We are currently recruiting for a Project Control – Planner/ Scheduler to join our Decommissioning and Regeneration business. This role will be based in our Birchwood office in Warrington.
The project controls team are an integral part of Jacobs, providing direct support to Project Managers and multi-disciplinary engineering teams across a range of diverse and complex programmes. We are currently recruiting for a Planner to join our Decommissioning and Regeneration business. This role will be based either in our Birchwood office in Warrington, but there will be a need for periodic visits to client sites, as projects require.
Key Responsibilities:
Working within a multidiscipline project as part the Project Controls teams under the direction and leadership of the Project Manager, to establish, develop and maintain Project schedules / plans.
To comply with Jacobs & customer project controls procedures, processes, and systems to ensure that quality and consistency of data is maintained.
To contribute to improving the quality and performance of project control processes and systems.
To be responsible for the preparation of monthly cost reports, identifying critical areas, and providing trend analysis and early warnings to the Project Team and/or Project Services Function.
To identify schedule variances and develop the appropriate mitigation strategies for recommendation to the Project Team.
Monitor trends monthly, provide analysis to the Project Team and invoke the project change control procedure where required.
To be responsible for monthly and ad hoc reporting requirements, including management of monthly reports and reporting on behalf of the Project Team.
Prepare project schedules, including resource loading on behalf of the project teams and client.
Work with stakeholders to manage any interfaces between the Project Schedules.
Here’s what you’ll need :
Preparing comprehensive project schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
Previous experience of working at Programme/Portfolio Level.
Preparation of resource and earned value utilisation reports.
Input to QSRA’s (Quantative Schedule Risk Analysis) and an understanding of the risk process.
Earned value metrics such as SPI (Schedule Performance Index), CPI (Cost Performance Index), Schedule Variance etc.
Change Control procedures and management.
Managing and retrieving information.
Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)
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