Planning & Scheduling Lead

Planning & Scheduling Lead Contract - inside ir35 MOD/Defence sector. High level security clearance is requirement or ability to obtain this. Scope / Task Deliverables - Act as technical lead, develop, maintain, and validate integrated ‘resource-loaded’ plans that account for facility and project activity to provide an overview of current and planned future work activity at individual resource level, to inform strategic management discussions. - Develop and manage plans for production maintenance outages and ensure incorporation into the integrated plan. - Engage with Project Managers, plan owners, and key Stakeholders to ensure the integration of individual facility and project programmes of work into a Integrated Plan and provide output data required by key Stakeholders. - Work closely with the Facility Operations and programme leadership to ensure alignment and integration of key programme planning materials - Ensure all business and project risks are incorporated into the Integrated Plan and engage Risk Manager to provide impact scenario reporting. - Develop the Integrated Plan to provide Facility and projects resource metrics, highlighting pinch points, over-allocation and/or delivery risks & business opportunities. - Lead on assessment of schedule risk, identification of opportunities to optimise delivery and provide performance reporting to enhance programme management understanding on dependencies and limitations. Methodology: The Principal Planning is expected to: - Deliver role in accordance with procedures and industry best practice. - Act as the schedule integrator for the project, pulling together multiple delivery schedules into a single Integrated Master Schedule. - Provide detailed planning where there is not a suitable delivery schedule available