Project Planner

About the role

We’re looking for a  Project Planner  to join our Programme Management team at our   Advanced Manufacturing Facility  in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a  4-day working week  Monday - Thursday and  hybrid working .  Onsite working days are Monday and Tuesday, with Wednesday and Thursday typically worked from home subject to business needs.

You’ll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end planning lifecycle — from proposal to execution — helping deliver some of the UK’s most complex and innovative engineering programmes.

What You'll Be Doing

- Maintain the end-to-end lifecycle of planning and schedule management in support of programme capture and execution.

- Support proposal preparation planning including development of planning artefacts for solicitation response. Interfaces with program management, senior management and the contractual customer as the programs planning integrator.

- Support the validation of cost and schedule integration for effective program performance management.

- Support the vertical and horizontal integration between all schedules and other program artefacts compliant with LM's command media.

- Support the modelling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline.

- Supports the resolution of schedule conflicts, develops and implements work-around strategies and tactical alternatives.

- Utilises performance and health metrics to communicate actions to the programme team resulting in improved program performance.

- Maintenance and status updates of the IMS on a weekly & monthly basis.

- Support to the Maintenance of the Performance Measurement Baseline.

- Support to the Project Business Rhythm.

- Support to the generation of Schedule Information for client and management reviews.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

- 4-day working week (Mon–Thu) – enjoy a true work–life balance.

- Hybrid working – typically 2 days onsite, 2 days remote.

- Collaborative culture – work alongside some of the brightest minds in UK engineering.

- Be part of an organisation delivering cutting-edge Defence and technology programmes that make a real impact.
The successful candidate must achieve the appropriate level (DV) of security clearance.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

- Experience as a Project Planner, Project Co-oridator or similar PMO / Planning role

- A confident individual who will ensure that best planning practice is always adhered to, even in occasional pressurised situations

- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills

- Ability to quickly adapt to new tools, systems, and processes

Desired Skills

- Experience of Primavera P6

- SAP cost planning & reporting

- Background in Defence, MoD, or other complex engineering environments