Project Planner

£40,000 to £45,000 per annum, + 15% Bonus, BS32 Bradley Stoke, Bristol, 40 Hours Per Week (flexitime) Monday to Friday, Optional Hybrid Working 1 or 2 Days Per Week, Bonus, 8% Pension, Life Assurance, 25 Holidays + Bank Hols Plus more

This global leader within the defence industry are enjoying continued success and due to expansion have an opportunity for a project planner to work as a key member of a project team. Head quartered in Germany, supporting large defence contracts across the globe, this is an exciting new opportunity working within a team orientated and employee focused business that offers further progressive opportunities.

Working within this project planner role will see you :

• Responsible for the timely provision of programme and contractual deliverables, performance metrics, progress reports and data/information in support of the key performance indicators associated with their projects
• Development and maintenance of the project plans necessary to support each individual project for which they are responsible
• Ensuring all project and contractual artefacts are delivered within schedule, budget, performance and quality constraints
• Understanding of the project budget, ensuring cost allocation to the appropriate task and work breakdown structure together with articulation of the cause of any variances experienced by the project and associated recovery schemes
• Providing support to the project teams in order to resolve any cost, schedule, commercial and performance issues and provide intervention and/or escalation when appropriate

The successful project planner will need experience within :

• Holding an ability to create, maintain and report project schedules using Microsoft Projects.
• An ability to manage and report risk using a risk management tool (such as Active Risk Manager (ARM)), and to conduct a Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA).
• An understanding of change and change management techniques.
• An understanding of the process of Earned Value Management (EVM) would be desirable.

This would be the ideal role for someone who has worked as a planer, project coordinator or scheduler from within an engineering or defence industry, although not essential but beneficial.

Benefits Include :

• An annual bonus 15% of your salary
• 1 or 2 days hybrid working days per week
• Flexible start and finish times
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays additional options to buy a further 5 days
• Pension of up to 8% matched contribution
• 4 x basic salary death in service benefit
• Bupa health care cover
• Modern office environment
• On-site parking
• Extensive Christmas closure

You can apply direct to (url removed) or for further information, Please call Richard Hughes on (phone number removed) or (phone number removed).

Travail Employment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.