Senior 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 Senior Planner is responsible not only for maintaining integrated master project schedules and associated artefacts within their delegated area of responsibility, but also owning the tools and processes used to generate this and supporting outputs. 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 by junior staff 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. This role is expected to work autonomously with little oversight and guidance, and will coach, support and direct junior staff in producing supporting outputs.

Key activities will include:

• Maintain master project schedules for large projects/ collections of projects in an area by establishing and maintaining the overall structure, delegating responsibilities to more junior staff, and assuring their outputs before integrating these back into the master programme.

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

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

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

Key outputs will include: 

• Master Programme Schedules
• Complex PBS, WBS, OBS and RAM
• Programme level EVM reporting
• Programme level schedule reporting
• Programme/ business line level resource analysis
• Complex Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) model and reports (supporting RAID manager)
• Planning tool configuration, settings and structure (e.g. calendars)
• Planning process guidance, templates and quality standards

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

• APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Practitioner
• APM Project Fundamentals Qualification
• APMG Earned Value Management Practitioner
• ECITB Planning & Scheduling Practice (or other equivalent Planning qualification)
• APM Full Membership

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

• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
•  ILM Level 3 Award in Management
• NEC3/4 Training

Person Specification: 

An entrant into the Senior 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.

An established Senior Planner will have had 1-2+ years of experience maintaining a master programme that is fed in to by multiple project controls staff of various levels of experience.

Specialization: G2 - Project Control

Level of education (all) Bachelor

Place: United Kingdom, Europe, Sizewell (UK)

Employment level: Non cadre

Position under administrative investigation: Yes