Job TitleJunior planner
Job Description
Reports to: Planning Manager
Location: Remote – With travel to sites
Introduction to role
The Project Planner will be responsible for creation, updating and maintaining project plans throughout the project cycle for automated systems of varying complexities in an ever changing and challenging environment. The successful candidate will work close with the Planning Manager, Project Manager, Commercial Manager, suppliers, subcontractors and customers in developing project plans in collaboration with the project delivery teams (Engineering, construction and integration).
Role Responsibilities
This role will involve liaising with the project delivery teams including supply chain to facilitate detailing project schedules to the right level of details required for delivering the project.
Actively gathering progress information from project team members including subcontractors and factory manufacturing activities to progress project plans and allow for effective monitoring of the projects and highlight issues/delays to the Project Manager.
Your responsibilities and activities will include:
- Analyse project performance, track progress and feedback to the project manager on project performance
- Prepare 6 week look ahead plan
- Investigating, measuring, and recording Project change and variation through the project lifecycle. Ensuring all planning changes are clearly documented and recorded and instigating recovery plans if the project deviates from the baseline
- Working within a challenging project environment to create good working relationship (partnership approach) to ensure successful project outcomes
- Encourage and construct good coherent relationships and partnerships with Project teams, external suppliers and subcontractors, internal business support functions and wider stakeholders - promoting project engagement and successful delivery against project objectives
- Continuously improve upon own and others within the project planning team, and champion own development of planning best practices to support better individual and business wide project delivery
- Support a safe working environment within project delivery by championing and encouraging a safety-first culture down through the supply chain
Role Qualification and Skills
- Primavera experience essential
- CSCS card desirable
- Excellent time keeper
- Balance competing priorities, delivering within deadlines and under pressure
- Strong and Open Communicator – capable of presenting to all levels within the organization
- Project controls and project reporting not essential but desirable
- Fully independent, including for Major Projects.
- Experienced business partner for person responsible for project.
- Ensures coordination with other disciplines.
- Familiar with all methodologies / tooling for single and multi-project planning.
- Independently states delivery times.
- Evaluates the methods, tooling and processes used and puts forward proposals for improvements
- Implements scheduled improvements
- Experience delivering programmes within an NEC framework not essential but desirable
Please note: Experience of Baggage Handling / Airport Systems will be considered but not essential as training will be provided
Please note that UK and Ireland travel will be necessary along with a valid UK driving license. Some occasional overseas travel may be required
What we offer
- 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
- Bupa Medical Cover
- YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
- A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension with Aviva
- Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.
Top Skills
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
