Senior Planning Consultant

We're a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person's differences and striving to meet their needs.

The Senior Planning Consultant will act on behalf of Mott MacDonald or as a Clients Representative and is responsible for overseeing the planning and schedule management a range of projects and programmes. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience developing and implementing schedule management best practices including development of work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines, establishing progress monitoring methods and reports, and possess the ability to perform schedule analysis and communicate recommendations clients and key stakeholders.

What you will contribute to the team

- Develop integrated Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) schedules from first principles with experience in Critical Path Methodology (CPM), resource loading and forecasting, cost loading and Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Evaluating tender documents and producing compliant Tender schedule submissions.
- Produce and control a fully integrated Baseline Schedule through collaboration with key vendors and functional teams including engineering, supply chain, construction and commissioning.
- Ability to establish a reporting framework for delivery and Senior Leadership reporting, ensuring clear controls and concise reporting of schedule performance is available to support early decision making.
- Analyse project schedules by comparing cost/resource curves to actuals, tracking float consumption, performing schedule health (integrity) checks, monitoring performance and carrying out variance analysis to support Baseline and Change Management procedures.
- Perform schedule assurance reviews, Time Impact Assessments, Schedule QRA's and responses to Extension of Time (EoT) claims.
- Identify and mitigate threats to the project schedule, initiate and close out of corrective actions with project teams.
- Set up, manage and facilitate interactive planning workshops using the schedule to help facilitate planning, coordination and accurate progress reporting.
- Generate high quality schedule data (dates, interfaces, resources, materials, costs) to support schedule risk management, senior leadership decision making and predictability.
- Perform schedule progress updating and formulating ideas to drive schedule improvements and predictability.
- Lead planning and scheduling related initiatives - time to market, schedule estimates, benchmarking to support function and project execution.
- Support the business unit with the formulation, implementation and ongoing development of schedule processes and procedures.

Required for the position of Senior Planning Consultant:

- Experience providing planning and scheduling management leadership across a wide range of industries such as Utilities, Transportation, Energy, Water, Defence, and Building.
- Experience evaluating tender documents and producing compliant Tender schedule submissions.
- Able to rapidly establish credibility and lead on 'all things planning'.
- Demonstrate track record of dealing with complex situations while maintaining professional integrity.
- Experienced in Stakeholder Management, able to summarise complex situations into concise and effective communication using an array of methods such as written and verbal to a senior executive audience.
- A strong commitment to delivery: on time, to standard, within agreed resources.
- Confident, articulate, with the ability to influence and constructively challenge.
- Excellent communication skills and able to simplify complex issues.
- Experience of Earned value and Critical Path management and control.
- Experience of planning in a range of contractual environments. NEC3/4 is desirable.
- Development, deployment and continuous improvement of planning processes, procedures and systems.
- Team leadership – Can demonstrate effective management and leadership skills covering both direct line management situations and as a functional leader.
- Demonstrate a commitment to CPD including progression of chartership / membership of professional bodies.
- The candidate needs to have a logical mindset, methodical approach and excellent organisational skills.
- Demonstrate time management of self and others. Also demonstrate experience in mentoring and professional development of early and mid-career professionals.
- Expert level knowledge of Primavera and MS Project.
- A proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications.
- Experienced and skilled using various risk and reporting tools such as Safran, PowerBI.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

About the business unit
Mott MacDonald's Advisory and Programme Delivery(APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients' key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

Our industry-leading specialist advisory teams offer a range of transformational services that support our core project, programme, and commercial offering, as well as supporting our clients in addressing their business needs. These includes climate change, estimating and cost intelligence, health, safety and wellbeing, land advisory, planning PMO, quality management and risk management.

The specialist advisory team brings together multiple critical services in a connected offering, drawing on cross-sector best practice and expertise. We add huge value to our clients through our integrated approach, whilst relentlessly focus on excellence and our passion for improving society.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

- Pension matched up to 7%
- Life insurance
- An annual professional institution subscription
- Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive
- Agile/flexible working – because life isn't 9-5
- Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers
- Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
- Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
- Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities

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