About Us
A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world, our work goes to the cutting-edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi-cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together, there’s something for everyone to get stuck into. And that’s where you come in.
London, Greater London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
Our Opportunity
The TfL Services project team (part of the Connect portfolio) is looking for a Planner who will be responsible for the provision of accurate, integrated and meaningful bid and/or project planning information to the management team and key stakeholders.
The role holder will need to work well within a team environment, have a strong planning background and be willing to take on responsibilities within costing and controls.
This role conforms to our hybrid working policy – with a minimum expectation of two days per week in an office, primarily Waterloo.
The Planner responsibilities include:
- Maintain, develop & communicate the integrated bid / project plan in the designated planning tool set including all contract deliverable milestones, internal milestones, invoicing and sales milestones
- Monitor the integrated set of bid / project schedules, costs, and resources in accordance with the company timetable, procedures and working practices and cost structure and Work Break-down Structure
- Undertake and coordinate the formal update of bid / project schedules, interdependencies, resource allocations budgets and financial status
- Provide effective planning support to the management of transition throughout the lifecycle
- Generate the overall critical path across the integrated set of bids / projects and reconcile issues, making recommendations to assist in the recovery of slippage, where applicable
- Undertake Earned Value calculations, where applicable, to support bid / project performance forecasting
- Analyse resource profiles resulting from the monthly schedule update process and make recommendations to reconcile resource loading anomalies ahead of the Forward Load extraction
- Undertake all baseline and change control activities associated with the schedules including regular local archiving of the associated database(s)
About You
Human skills:
- Strong service delivery
- Operating across functional and departmental boundaries
- Ability to establish and meet deadlines, multi-task and prioritise without the requirement for regular direct supervision
- Excellent communication skills to a variety of stakeholders
- Commercial, financial and general business acumen
Technical skills:
- Excellent technical project planning skills with proficiency in common project planning tool sets (such as Primavera, Oracle)
- Proficient in Earned Value Management techniques
- A strong understanding of the need for governance in bid / project management and the ability to uphold governance requirements
- A thorough understanding of planning techniques – for example the application of critical path analysis, work breakdown structures etc
What To Expect
Applications will close on Friday 21st March. We will aim to hold in person interviews, in Waterloo, during the week commencing 24th March. We aim to hold a two stage interview process, which will focus separately on technical and behavioural competencies. Reasonable adjustments are available with prior notice so please let the TA partner know if this would be necessary. To find out what reasonable adjustments are, and what might be available, your TA partner will be happy to discuss this with you. We may close this role early if we quickly identify suitably strong applicants.
What We Can Offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Thank you for your interest in Hitachi Rail. If your application is of interest, we will be in contact. Please do not hesitate to discover more about us and our latest jobs at https://www.hitachirail.com/careers.
At Hitachi Rail, there is a place for everyone. We welcome and value differences in background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and world view. It is our commitment to create an inclusive environment - we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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