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Are you a Planning and Scheduling Manager with a desire to work on some of the largest and technically advanced defence programmes in world today? If so, we have exciting opportunities for you to join our Schedule Management Group (SMG) in Bristol and Plymouth.
As Planning and Scheduling Manager, you will form part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for delivering valuable projects and services to scope, on budget, on time and aligned with organisational vision. You will undertake, manage and coach planning and scheduling activities, supervising a small team of junior planners and schedulers to ensure key deliverables are met across a range of business contexts. Due to the nature of this work, working with stakeholders is critical to success. Therefore, you will be required to uphold strong relationships and provide subject matter expertise to SDA teams, our contractors and the wider nuclear enterprise.
In the SDA, continuous professional development is actively encouraged. You will have access to defined upskilling policies, training and support to prosper. The SDA operate a hybrid working environment and the expectation is that you will attend the site a minimum of three days a week, according to business need/team. Initially, you will be expected to attend more frequently to familiarise yourselves with your team, role and the environment. When attending site, your primary place of work will be one of following locations:
- MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol BS34 8JH
- HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, Devon PL2 2BG
Please be advised that due to the nature of security, these roles are reserved for sole UK Nationals only. Due to there being posts in multiple teams/locations, SDA reserve the right to offer the highest scoring applicant/s for each team/location respectively, subject to requirements.
Responsibilities
- Provide and influence leadership, supervision and direction to support junior planners and schedulers; setting and assuring SDA standards are complied with including supplier integration or integration of dependencies with other OBIs or Stakeholder schedules
- Lead planning / scheduling effort for new baselines, ensuring they are maintained under change control; running workshops, co-ordinating and managing efforts of others, supporting the development of scheduling standards and procedures, including the delivery of training.
- Interrogate supplier data to understand status and forecast for remaining work and provide analysis and insight to support the assessment of the supplier’s performance. You will be expected to conduct analysis of the suppliers’ schedules and scheduling processes to enable the integration of appropriate activities into the SDA baseline
- Conduct schedule risk analysis, schedule health checks and audits across the Portfolio to ensure maturity and standards are maintained to SDA policy
- Provide monthly reporting and analysis and communicate key project schedule performance data to key member of the project, programme and DE&S leadership
