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Jacobs Senior Project Planner 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
The project controls team are an integral part of the company, 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 Senior Planner to join our Decommissioning and Regeneration business.
Key Responsibilities:
The production and development of project schedules from project defined scope.
To Resource and cost load the schedules in line with the project estimate.
The production of a project schedule baseline and the continuous update and monitoring of the project baseline through change control.
To produce BCWS ‘Budget Cost of Work Scheduled’ information from the project schedule.
To provide project resource utilisation requirements from the project schedule to assist the project delivery timescales.
To hold/attend regular project schedule reviews with the project teams to monitor delivery of the project schedule, circulating look-ahead information and implementing recovery plans as required.
To provide regular progress updates producing BCWP ‘Budget Cost of Work Performed’ information for earned value, SPI ‘Schedule Performance Indices’ and SV ‘Schedule Variance’ for project performance.
To liaise with the cost engineer to accurately assess the financial status of the project to the required level on the project schedule, producing CPI ‘Cost Performance Indices’ and CV ‘Cost Variance’ for project performance.
To produce project schedule forecasts, advising the project team in areas of critical path analysis, risk, slippage to dates and milestone delivery and overall project completion.
To supply any required information to support the Project Manager in preparation of any monthly status reports as directed.
Here’s what you’ll need :
Significant Project Planning / Scheduling Experience.
An Engineering / Project Management Qualification or equivalent.
A proven track record of successful delivery within the planning function using planning tools such as Primavera.
Experienced in planning from design through to construction & site works.
Ability to develop schedules as a lead role and as part of a wider project team.
Engagement and development of strong relationships with client senior managers, regulators and other stakeholders, including internal Jacobs management.
Ability to support framework team developing and delivering projects.
Develop project plans for the purpose of project execution and control.
Experience in producing and managing programmes in accordance with the NEC contract.
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.
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.
Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role
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