Planner

Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet.

With 14,000 employees worldwide, and over 300 strong in the UK, our plans are to grow to 400-500 by 2025 through the development our UK nuclear service offerings

Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI – 19.5%) 

Due to our ongoing and rapid growth, we are looking to recruit a Project Planner ideally to be based at Sizewell B in Suffolk. 

The Planner will be responsible for maintaining integrated master project schedules and associated artefacts within their delegated area of responsibility. These outputs will be one of the core project controls outputs in support of project management and customer/ business reporting requirements, and the role is responsible for ensuring that all outputs produced that feed into this are suitable and timely.

This role is expected to produce outputs within the planning sub-discipline but to also engage with other sub-discipline leads to ensure outputs are integrated and aligned. Planners are expected work autonomously with some oversight and guidance from a Project Controls Manager, and will coach, support and direct junior planners in producing supporting outputs.

Key activities will include:

• Maintain master project schedules for larger projects/ collections of projects in an area and assuring the outputs of other functions before integrating these back into the master programme.

• Lead the planning process on projects, taking the integrated project team from requirement through to WBS through to the baselined schedule.

• Lead on integrated schedule reporting and outputs to the business and customer including Earned Value Management (EVM), resource analysis, schedule performance and milestone reporting.

• Being an advocate for the tools, processes, guidance and templates of the Planning discipline on their projects/ in their area by promoting engagement with them across the business to foster buy-in and adoption.

Key outputs will include: 

• Master Schedules
• PBS, WBS, OBS and RAM
• EVM reporting
• Schedule reporting
• Resource analysis
• Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) model and reports (supporting RAID manager)

To be considered, the Planner is expected to hold the following:

• APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Foundation
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification
• ECITB Planning & Scheduling Practice (or other equivalent Planning qualification)
• APM Associate Membership

It is desirable they hold, or aim to gain within 2 years, the following:

• APM Full Membership
• APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Practitioner
• APMG Earned Value Management Foundation
• NEC3/4 Programme Training

Person Specification: 

An entrant into the Planner role would be someone who has had ~2 years of experience in Planning and has held sole responsibility for a significantly sized project schedule/ collection of schedules. They have been a part of the full planning process, supporting more senior staff in developing planning artefacts such as the WBS, or leading this process on smaller projects. They are able to engage with all functions within the business to explain planning principles and extract good quality data from them to input into programmes.

An experienced candidate for the Planner role is likely someone who has spent a significant amount of time in dedicated planning roles (5+ years) working on large and complex programmes. They may not have had experience managing teams of planners or integrating the outputs of less senior planners and project controls staff into a master plan, but they have the technical knowledge to be able to do this and have had experience coaching and guiding junior staff in planning. They must be more than just adept users of scheduling software, being able to guide teams through the planning process and work with teams to generate quality inputs to the planning & scheduling process through questioning, challenging and validating data.

Specialization: G2 - Project Control

Level of education (all) Bachelor

Place: United Kingdom, Europe, Sizewell (UK)

Employment level: Non cadre

Position under administrative investigation: Yes