Senior Project Planner

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Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, England
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Support project delivery as a Project Planner, managing schedules, coordinating work packages, and interfacing with stakeholders to track progress and report on risks.
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Company Description

Assystem is an international company with one mission: accelerate the energy transition around the world.

Finding solutions to climate change is the priority of the 21st century, and means switching to low-carbon energy. At Assystem, our mission is to accelerate the energy transition worldwide. To achieve this, our 7,500 Switchers combine their historical engineering expertise and project management with digital technologies.

In our 12 countries (Europe, Middle East, Asia) of operation, we are working on the production and distribution of low-carbon electricity, through the development of nuclear and renewable energies. We are also supporting the modernisation and development of energy grids, managing the setup and siting for new transmission and distribution networks, and using hydrogen to decarbonise the transport and industry sectors.

Job Description

As the Assystem’s Defence Infrastructure account continues to grow, we are looking to recruit a dynamic, self-motivated Project Planner / Senior Project Planner to support project delivery. 

Working alongside the Defence Infrastructure Project Manager(s), the Project Planner is the local point for all aspects of planning across the Defence Infrastructure portfolio. 

This role will be based at any of our Assystem offices with ad-hoc travel to client and other Assystem offices as required. Assystem are currently implementing our ‘new normal’ flexible working model, which will continue to support a mixture of home and office working across the business.

Main Duties:

  • Responsible for planning – production and management of project schedule(s), both internally and externally.
  • Coordination of work packages to schedule, tracking progress vs schedule, resource planning, coordination of sub-contractors.
  • Review and approval of sub-contractor programmes.
  • Interface with the stakeholders to identify and report on progress, change, risks and opportunities.
  • Input to proposals relating to manhour estimates and planning.
  • Produce concise, accurate reports of project metrics including critical path analysis to the Defence Infrastructure Lead Team.

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Behaviors

  • Primavera P6 to intermediate level (essential)
  • Strong skills in MS Office, especially Excel and Project
  • Self-motivated and able to work to deadlines without direction/supervision
  • Good communicator able to provide a clear, concise and accurate summary of project progress, risks to the critical path and metrics
  • Able to confidently engage with sub-contractors and critically review the accuracy of sub-contractor submissions
  • Attention to detail

Qualifications:

  • Degree preferred, or other equivalent qualification
  • Primavera P6 training
  • Project Management qualification (e.g. APM) would benefit

Experience

  • Experience as project planner on NEC4 Contracts is essential (particularly Option A and Option C)
  • Major infrastructure design and build project background highly desirable
  • Experience of working in the Nuclear or Defence Industry is highly desirable

 

Additional Information

Due to the nature of this role the successful candidate will require Security clearance. To gain this they will be required to be a Sole UK national,  Hybrid working from home/Assystem Office

Benefits include:

  • Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
  • 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
  • Professional fees reimbursed
  • Flexible working
  • Employee referral scheme

 

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Hybrid remote/in-office

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.

Top Skills

Excel
MS Office
Primavera P6
Project
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The Company
Courbevoie
6,975 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Assystem, one of the world's leading independent nuclear engineering companies, is committed to accelerating the energy transition. We see ourselves as an activist in the development of nuclear energy, convinced that it is an essential part of the fight against climate change. 7,000 switchers, spread in 12 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East are working every day to make the energy switch by accelerating the development of nuclear and renewable energies, power grids, clean hydrogen projects and low-carbon transport. We design and supervise major projects through our engineering activities and accelerate our customers' digital transformation. We also develop new solutions to build faster and improve the performance of complex infrastructures. 55 years of experience have made Assystem a key partner of the world's largest industrial groups: CEA, EDF, ENEC, Enedis, Engie, Framatome, ITER, K.A. CARE, Naval Group, NICDC, Orano, RATP, Rolls Royce, Royal Commission, Sellafield, SGP, SNCF... Assystem is ranked in the Top 3 companies in the nuclear energy sector.

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