Highways England Graduate Scheme – Planner In Bedford

Overview

Position Title: Planner

Company: National Highways

Location: Bedford, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

The successful candidate will initially be leading the project management function in Highways England’s second generation free-flow charging (FFC) service during the transition, customer cutover and aftercare support. This is a public facing, high-volume IT- enabled transactional service within a gov.uk environment. This is a high profile and forward-looking position with wide-ranging Government, stakeholder and customer interfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Producing project programmes, using Primavera P6 Project Planner for baseline programme and live updates in month
• Co-ordinating, monitoring and updating design and site programmes in liaison with design and construction contractors
• Ensuring alignment of financial forecasts to the current programme
• Producing weekly and monthly performance reports to monitor progress against baseline and previous month’s planned milestones
• Assisting in the application of the risk management as and when required;
• Contributing to fortnightly collaborative production planning meetings to drive delivery of schemes through the process
• Liaising with sub-contractors and suppliers to organise construction programmes, create, maintain, review and administer construction schedules and plans
• Ensuring the progress of the project is running to time scales and cost plans
• Producing bespoke programmes and reports for stakeholders which can feed into communications plans for packages of work
• Working with project managers to Identify and implement efficiencies in design

Requirements:

• Good IT skills specifically proficiency in Primavera P6
• Excellent communication skills and team player
• Experience in developing, maintaining and scheduling complex programmes
• Experience of liaising with multiple project teams
• Attention to detail
• Ability to communicate and interact with a range of stakeholders
• Ability to manage own workload to agreed deadlines