Project Planner

This contract with our Defence client is for a Project Planner for 4 months based in Bristol, occasional travel to Portsmouth/ Hybrid.  

The principal duties will include:  

• Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to understand project objectives and requirements.  

• Develop comprehensive project plans, including defining project scope, deliverables, tasks, and timelines.  

• Create detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 software.  

• Identify critical path activities and dependencies to optimise project timelines.  

• Assess resource requirements and allocating personnel, equipment, and materials for project tasks.  

• Ensure optimal resource utilisation and avoiding overallocation.  

• Continue monitoring project progress and performance against the established schedule.  

• Identify potential delays or risks and implement corrective actions.  

• Generate regular progress reports and present them to project managers and stakeholders.  

• Provide updates on project status, milestones, and variances from the original plan.  

• Assist in identifying potential risks and uncertainties that could impact project timelines.  

• Collaborate with project teams to develop risk mitigation strategies.  

• Manage changes to the project schedule resulting from scope changes or unforeseen events.  

• Assess the impact of changes on project timelines and communicating adjustments to stakeholders.  

• Communicate with project managers, team members, and stakeholders to ensure alignment with the project schedule.  

• Experience of supporting Project Delivery in a DE&S environment.  

• UK MOD maritime experience, preferably torpedoes / submarine related.  

• Able to craft and own a detailed project schedule, Level 1 plan, and work breakdown structure.  

• Ability to contribute to project milestones against demanding performance, cost, and time constraints.  

• Comfort in working with minimal daily supervision to deliver key outputs.  

• Able to look ahead and anticipate challenges, craft solutions, and resolve them, referring to the Project manager for guidance.  

• Comfortable working in the Cat A project delivery environment, understand the assurance and scrutiny requirements required and able to work through delivery friction at pace.  

• Able to use in place IT systems to deliver effective compliant staff work that stands 2* scrutiny.  

• Experience of MS Suite of tools / DE&S project management and risk tools.  

• DE&S project management delivery experience.  

• Managing Successful Programs (MSP)  

• APMP – Project Management  

• PRINCE 2  

• APMP - Management of Risk (MoR)  

• They need either APMP or PRINCE 2, MSP would be a nice to have as would be MoR.  

Top 3 essential criteria:  

1. Evidence of Cat A project schedule delivery in DE&S  

2. Evidence of role played in delivering project plan, project schedule  

3. Evidence that they have worked in defence project delivery or in industry facing MOD within the last 3 months.