About Amey

Fundamental to living our core values is having great people in our business. That's why we believe that Amey is only as great as the people we employ. We place great value on our people and the contribution they make to our business, that’s why we aim to offer a competitive benefits package to all of our employees. Working for Amey you will receive a competitive salary and will be able to join our contributory pension scheme. In addition you will be entitled to Company sponsored life assurance and a generous holiday entitlement. You will also be invited to join Amey Choices which offers a range of flexible benefit options and offers additional benefits available throughout the year. Amey is an equal opportunities employer.

What is the purpose of this role?

Overall responsibility to assist the Senior Planner in the development, monitoring and reporting of all relevant programmes.

What will this role involve?

The Planner reporting to a nominated Project Director with a dotted line to the Programme Director for Wales & Borders.  The position provides a service to multiple Project Managers. Accountabilities to include:

• Responsible for producing project plans from conception to completion and advise project teams accordingly
• Interface and provide the required information to the project teams to enable
• Project Management reporting to be carried out including cost planning
• Lead monthly progress review meetings with the project teams to monitor and report progress
• Obtain accurate actual progress and forecast to complete from third parties and subcontractors to enable the project plan to be updated
• Preparation of progress project ‘S’-curves for measuring and monitoring periodical progress against the project baseline ‘S’-curve
• Proactively enhance the planning systems within the business.
• Identify and share best practice
• Establish clear communications and work effectively with members of the team
• Identify programme issues that need to be addressed with the client to ensure their satisfaction
• Ensure that agreed reporting methods and timescales are met
• Responsible for in cost and resource planning
• The position is office based in Cardiff, but may require visits to site, suppliers and third parties  

What are we looking for?

• Computer literate and thoroughly conversant with MS office suite. Experienced in the use of Primavera
• Ability to lead and implement new planning processes
• Ability to plan multi-disciplinary schemes; understanding the interfaces between different disciplines
• Ability to extract progress information from reports and challenge where there may be conflicting or inconsistent
• Commercially experienced and competent using Primavera systems for cost control
• Strong interpersonal skills to influence and manage all stakeholders
• Confident communication and presentation skills with experience both internal and customer facing at senior level
• Ability to maintain professional working relationships in a high paced project environment
• Proactive and enthusiastic team player
• Able to work unaided with little direction  

 What makes this role unique?

 You will use the project plan to identify delivery risks and play a key role in realising suitable mitigation methods. You will use project plans to review resource allocation and capacity.