Senior Planner (Pharmaceutical Sector)
As a Senior Planner at Linesight, you will play a crucial role within our organization, working in an agile and collaborative environment. Serving as the primary point of contact for the Planning & Scheduling service line within your assigned Division of Responsibility, you will represent Linesight across all regional business activities, bringing your technical expertise, leadership, and commitment to excellence. This role also involves leading and managing a high-performing team.
Your Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- 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 that is viewable at multiple levels of detail and abstraction.
- Lead and facilitate meetings with both 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.
- Have experience with the CQV process for certain 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 analyse project schedules.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying complex schedule data in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
- Confidence in leading meetings and the ability to command attention, facilitate productive discussions, and drive decisions.
- Demonstrable experience with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), including the ability to interpret and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders.
- An 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 culture where everyone can be their true selves. We believe that inclusivity leads to happier people and better work.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the recruitment process and to thrive in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application. We would love to hear from you!
Application Process
Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.