Project Planner

We’re inventing the future, right here, right now, at Thales. We design the critical security solutions of tomorrow by combining the curiosity to explore, the intelligence to question and the vision to create. Together we solve complicated problems by combining our experience in the market with our leading research and development capabilities.

As part of our Vehicles and Tactical Systems business, our Protected Vehicles team is primarily focused on the design, manufacture, delivery and support of protected mobility vehicles on a global scale. We are very proud of everything we do in support of both the Bushmaster and Hawkei platforms as we all work together towards our purpose in “Building A Future We Can All Trust".

We are expanding our protected vehicles team are looking to hire passionate and experienced Master Planner & Scheduler who can help us in development & maintenance of the schedule for the assigned element of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) using PERT and Critical Path analysis, including resource and budget assignment to form the PMB. The Planner/Scheduler must ensure appropriate and accurate representation of the work and progress at all times, monitoring and controlling for deviations to the PMB. The Planner/Scheduler must also ensure reconciliation of estimates for budget and forecast purposes as well as actual costs. Basic Earned Value establishment, tracking and variance analysis (cost and schedule) are also required in order to focus management attention on appropriate areas for correction action. Where a Cost/Schedule Analyst has carriage of the Earned Value Management aspects, the Planner/Scheduler supports the Cost/Schedule Analyst to maintain the EVM system alignment.

About You
- Minimum 6 years of experience in Project Planning and Controls and Project Management.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the project management lifecycle.
- Working knowledge in Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Advanced knowledge of Primavera and Scheduling Tools (e.g. Microsoft Project, Open Plan).
- Basic knowledge of schedule health check process or tools (e.g. Defence Contracting Agency (DCMA) 12 point check and Acumen Fuse).
- Scheduling - Program Evaluation & Review Technique (PERT) and Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis.
- Working knowledge of schedule acceleration concepts or tools such as Acumen 360.
- Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) using tools such as Primavera Risk Analyser (PRA), Acumen Risk or similar to develop probabilistic schedules (P80 and P90, etc).
- Financial / Budgetary control of control account & work-packages.

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