We are recruiting for an Integrated Planning Manager/Project Planner for a leading Defence organisation based in Portsmouth.

Ideally you will have SC Clearance, if not you must be eligible to obtain it.

Tasks & Accountabilities

* Creation, maintenance and timely delivery of the top level and lower level schedules, and Integrated Project Team (IPT) schedules

* Analysing project costs versus project forward load in conjunction with resource tracking / management on behalf of the Project Manager

* Payment Milestone tracking

* Risk analysis tracking

* Change Control

* Support management consolidation, judgement, recommendations and the timely provision of all necessary management data and reporting information

* Provide consolidated project reports on a monthly and quarterly basis to senior management including special focus reports as required

* Create and maintain standardised templates for schedules and project reporting

* Project administration support to the Project Manager and the project team

Skills & Experience

* Experienced in working within a Project Management, including scheduling, logic checking, Earned Value and Risk Management

* Knowledge of planning best practice, e.g. logic linking/dependencies, resource scheduling, preforming schedule health checks, Critical Path analysis, and work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

* Planning to stage boundaries - contingency planning

* Good knowledge/understanding of Project Management methodologies

* Excellent knowledge and proficient use of both MS Project Professional & Primavera P6 Professional

* This is an umbrella contract, the role is Inside IR35