Guidant Global is working with the UK's trusted Ministry of Defence partner, MBDA, who needs a Project Planner/Controller to be at the heart of the business performance management team and the technical team in Bristol to develop and deploy and set ongoing objectives of promoting.
As a Project Planner Controller with previous experience, you will play a vital role in advancing and supporting the company standard of Planning and Scheduling.
What you'll get to do as a Project/Planner Controller:
- Analysing continuous progress and performance, evaluating this against contractual and internal targets - determining variance and its respective causes.
- Preparing reports and recommending actions to maintain and or improve progress.
- Establish and Initiate the Sector / Projects Overall Project Schedule and ensure it is Deployed and maintained to the Company Standard.
- Support the development of Planning Skills across the Project Team, Coaching Engineering, Production and Project Management team members in best practice Planning and Scheduling.
- Integrate all Work package plans and ensure they are fully integrated to achieve an overall network to the company standard Deploy, Manage and Maintain the Projects Performance Measurement Baseline.
- Support the Work package teams updating their plans every month.
- Produce, Distribute and Report Project Schedule Data as Requirements, advising on conflicts and corrective actions.
- Manage the Earned Value Management (EVM) methodology and apply when Requirement.
- Manage and the Project Critical Path Analysis Process to the company standard.
- Foster good working relationships with engineers and the broader community to embed the company's project control standards, systems, and methods, delivering accuracy and quality performance status data promptly.
What we're looking for:
- Maintain a high level of competence and experience with Primavera and SAP PS and with industry-standard computing applications (specifical spreadsheets).
- Harbour durable communication skills, capable of working in large teams with complex skills (Engineering, Finance, Commercial, Project Management, etc.)
- Possess the appeal of working in a multicultural pan-European environment.
- Contain a proven level of Commercial and Financial management experience.
- A proactive team player who inspires others is assertive and possesses strong negotiation and arbitration skills.
More about the role:
MBDA's relationship with the UK military spans back over 70 years. They have delivered countless landmarks in defence engineering, supplying vital defence capability to meet the needs of the armed forces over land, sea, and air.
This role is based at MBDA's, Bristol's state of the art site, which plays a key part in missiles operations. The location offers excellent transportation links, outstanding learning and development opportunities, and social, charitable, and sporting activities.
Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
