Job Title: Senior Planner (Pharmaceutical Sector)
As a Senior Planner at Linesight, you will play a vital role in our business, thriving in an agile and collaborative environment. You’ll serve as the primary point of contact for the Planning & Scheduling service line within your assigned Division of Responsibility. Representing Linesight across all regional business activities, you will bring technical expertise, leadership, and a commitment to excellence. This role also involves leading and managing a high-performing team.
Key Responsibilities
- Enjoy the freedom to manage your own priorities, deadlines, and client engagements.
- Develop detailed, end-to-end project schedules using critical path methodology, covering the full project scope, milestones, and timelines.
- Apply Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) methodology to define roles, responsibilities, and deliverables.
- Align all scheduling with the project execution plan, contracting, procurement, and control strategies.
- Establish a robust method for schedule baselining and manage ongoing updates.
- Maintain a fully integrated project schedule viewable at multiple levels of detail and abstraction.
- Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and suppliers to discuss timelines, progress, and dependencies.
- Negotiate and resolve interdisciplinary and inter-party schedule conflicts to achieve optimal outcomes for the client.
- Deliver regular progress reports to stakeholders, highlighting variances, risks, and mitigation strategies.
- Review and validate supplier and third-party schedules, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
- Apply working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) to support integrated schedule and cost performance tracking when required.
- Experience with the CQV process is required for some projects.
Qualifications
We would love to hear from you if you have:
- Extensive experience in construction project planning and scheduling.
- Proficiency in using Primavera P6 to build, manage, and analyze project schedules.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, able to convey complex schedule data clearly, concisely, and persuasively.
- Confidence in leading meetings, commanding attention, facilitating productive discussions, and driving decisions.
- Demonstrable experience with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), including the ability to interpret and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Excellent technical understanding of planning processes in complex, high-value construction projects.
- A degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, or a related field.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organization, accessible to all, fostering a safe culture that enables all our people to be their true selves. As a people-oriented business, we understand that inclusivity leads to happier employees and superior work outcomes. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application.
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