The Role
Create and maintain detailed project schedules, support planning sessions, resource-load activities, review schedule logic and critical paths, update progress, produce planning reports (look-ahead, milestones, S-curves), assist re-baselining and change control, identify corrective actions and maintain auditable planning records for projects.
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Our Business
pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.
The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Planner.
You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.
pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.
The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Planner.
You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.
Key Responsibilities
- Support planning sessions and workshops with Project Managers to identify key deliverables, develop the work breakdown structure and agree appropriate schedule logic.
- Create, maintain and update detailed project schedules in line with agreed planning standards and project requirements.
- Work with Project Managers, Project Engineers, Department Managers and other stakeholders to obtain progress updates, activity durations, resource requirements and supporting information.
- Resource-load schedules using the shared resource pool and highlight potential resource conflicts, over-allocation or under-utilisation to the Planning Manager.
- Review schedule logic, constraints, critical and near-critical paths, raising gaps or inconsistencies for resolution.
- Update project progress accurately and support weekly and monthly schedule reviews, ensuring slippage, risks and emerging issues are clearly identified.
- Produce planning reports and schedule outputs, including look-ahead plans, milestone reports, S-curves and baseline variance information.
- Support the identification of corrective actions and recovery options where progress is behind plan.
- Maintain schedule baselines and assist with re-baselining following approved scope changes, ensuring change control requirements are followed.
- Prepare tailored schedule updates and planning information for project reports, client reports, meetings and presentations.
- Keep planning records, assumptions and supporting data accurate, current and auditable.
- More details can be found on the role profile
Minimum Requirements:
- Experience in a planning, project controls or project support role, ideally within a construction or engineering environment.
- Working knowledge of planning principles, including work breakdown structures, dependencies, logic, baselines, progress measurement and critical path.
- Experience of using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project to create and maintain project schedules.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Able to interpret project information and identify where schedule data, logic or progress may not be accurate or complete.
What you will receive from us:
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.
Contribution towards eye test and glasses
Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
Long Service Awards
Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible Benefits Package
Onsite parking
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.
About
px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.
Skills Required
- Experience in a planning, project controls or project support role, ideally within construction or engineering
- Working knowledge of planning principles including work breakdown structures, dependencies, logic, baselines, progress measurement and critical path
- Experience of using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project to create and maintain project schedules
- Competent user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Able to interpret project information and identify where schedule data, logic or progress may not be accurate or complete
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The Company
What We Do
px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business that owns and manages energy, chemicals, and industrial assets, focusing on delivering net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in energy infrastructure and industrial processes, driving decarbonisation and efficiencies.
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