Primavera P6 Programme Planner

Your new company
You will be working for a local council within their engineering services team.

Your new role
We are looking for a Programme Planner with excellent Primavera P6 knowledge whose initial work will include updating the workload planner for the service, training others in the use of Primavera P6 and assessing programmes on major civil engineering projects.

This is an initial 1-year contract with the potential to extend. They will consider both full-time and part-time candidates. This is a hybrid role with requirement to be in Winchester as agreed.

As part of this role, the candidate should expect to carry out work within the following areas:

• Programme Planning and shaping: support clients to articulate their needs and aspirations for their programmes.
• Translate these needs into deliverable outputs with others across Engineering Services.
• Ensure the programmes meet the client's needs and delivers high-quality, cost-effective projects and evidence the value for money
• Demonstrate the skills and ability to lead a complex programme of work; introducing structured governance, mapping resources, clear stakeholder engagement and communication planning and linkages necessary to achieve the desired programme outcomes.
• Liaise with others within Engineering Services to identify and illustrate forward workload to support business planning.
• Combine different project, programme and workstream programmes into a single master programme for Engineering Services to support the management of the forward workload and continuous improvement.
• Be the best practise lead for Microsoft Project and the application of it within Engineering Services.
• Responsible for designing template programmes relating the diverse projects and programmes delivered by
• Engineering Services.
• Establish common standard working practice for all programmes to follow.
• Audit when required the appropriate use of programmes and develop to ensure lessons learnt and market intelligence are reflected in new templates.
• Carry out scenario planning / optioneering and issue resolution.
• Analysis and development: ensure programme data is analysed and trends with performance and market conditions are captured.
• Seek and enable connections across teams.
• Facilitate workshops to support the management and delivery of projects, programmes and workstreams.
• Deliver Primavera P6 training to the Project & Programme Management team.

What you'll need to succeed

You will be an experienced programme planner and you will have appropriate knowledge, experience and training in the use of planning software such as Primavera P6, Asta, MSP.

You will have a sound understanding of the NEC Contracts clauses and principles with recent and relevant experience as a planner managing programmes of work or similar.

What you'll get in return

£45-55 p/h DOE
1 Year Contract

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