Are you a Project Planner ready to take on a new challenge and deliver plans that drive real performance and impact?
We are seeking a Project Planner to help deliver projects efficiently and effectively for our Aerospace, Defence and Security Sector. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed project schedules, setting clear deadlines, and estimating resources and costs to ensure successful project delivery.
You will coordinate activities, monitor progress, manage risks, and provide updates to project managers. This position requires strong analytical, organisational, and communication skills.
This is a hybrid opportunity which involves travel to our sites within the following locations – Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire.
What you will be doing:
- Create and manage comprehensive project plans, schedules, and timelines using Microsoft Project tools.
- Assess resource requirements, support budget planning, and oversee resource allocation.
- Identify risks that could impact project delivery or costs and develop strategies to mitigate them.
- Track progress against schedules, collect updates, and revise plans, as necessary.
- Work closely with project managers, programme leads, team members, and stakeholders to ensure everyone is aligned and projects run smoothly.
- Prepare and present regular progress reports to management and stakeholders.
What you will bring:
- Strong proficiency in MS Project planning software and excellent analytical skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and competing priorities.
- Capable of clearly conveying complex information to various teams and stakeholders and presenting summaries at the appropriate level.
- Thorough in monitoring project details to ensure everything aligns with the plan.
- Able to identify challenges and find solutions to keep projects progressing.
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: UK Hybrid - must willing to travel to customer sites when required
Security Clearance Level: Ideally holding an active Developed Vetting (DV) clearance, or be willing to go through this process
Internal Recruiter: Josh
Salary: £60,000 to £85,000
Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
