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

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Planner to join us at Hitachi Rail.

The Senior Planner is responsible for provision of accurate, integrated and meaningful bid/project planning information to the management team and key stakeholders, encompassing monitoring, analysing and reporting for bid/project schedules to ensure that information is used in decision-making based upon the status of the most up to date schedule.

This is a hybrid role, where our minimum expectation is that you will be on site 2 days per week – in London.

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• 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. Including OTD and Golden 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 bid/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)

Technical Skills and Experience

• Excellent technical project planning skills with proficiency in common project planning tool sets (such as Primavera, Oracle)
• Proficient in Earned Value Management techniques
• Effective at working in a matrix style organisation
• A strong understanding of the need for governance in bid/project management and the ability to uphold governance requirements
• Ability to establish and meet deadlines, multi-task and prioritise autonomously
• Can demonstrate commercial, financial and general business acumen
• Experience of providing a bid/project planning service within a medium to large organisation
• A thorough understanding of planning techniques – for example the application of critical path analysis, work breakdown structures
• A high level of proficiency in the use of project planning tools and standard business administration software – primarily Primavera P6
• Commercial awareness that demonstrates useable knowledge of how conditions of contract are applied
• A track record of excellence in progress Reporting and KPI Production

Human Skills

• Strong service delivery ethos and orientation
• Excellent communication skills to convey planning information to a variety of stakeholders
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

What to expect

We aim to complete a two-stage interview process, held in person at either our Waterloo or Stratford office. The interviews 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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