Project Planner

ProSource is seeking the services of a lead planner in the Dublin Area. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning activities and progress reporting of Mechanical & Electrical works for several current projects in the educational and healthcare sectors, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical sectors. The successful candidate will be required to manage all aspects of planning and reporting, including work sequencing, activity durations, and programme logic and will be required to produce periodic progress reports, including percentage complete, S/E ratios and KPIs. The Planning Lead must interface with in-house project teams and external project parties to develop a coordinated and deliverable schedule. 

Responsibilities:

• Leading the planning team in the development of detailed construction
• schedules for baseline agreement with the client
• Complete schedule health checks before baselining for accuracy, integrity and critical path validation
• Ability to fully resource loaded schedules, produce and track KPI’s
• Ensuring accuracy and timely updating of the construction schedule
• Working with team members to ensure a system in place to capture and log any issues via the appropriate change control mechanisms
• Attending site meetings as required (internal and client-based)
• Monitoring original versus actual budgets for scope growth/changes
• Monitoring & updating in-house database project control system
• Productivity tracking of craft labour Spent vs Earned hours
• Ensure planning owned deliverables in the production of weekly /monthly construction reports are completed on time
• Producing weekly, monthly and periodic reports for internal and external purposes

Skills and Requirements:

• Support PM in the development and execution of project programmes
• Ability to oversee multiple projects and availability to regularly visit projects
• Knowledge of forensic planning and delay claim analysis
• Solid knowledge and understanding of electrical systems
• Relevant 3rd-level qualification/Trade Qualified
• Minimum of 3 years post qualification experience (preferably including
• Electrical contracting experience)
• Experience in Primavera P6 software required (min 2years) Ms Project
• Ability to interrogate & challenge where necessary Main Contractor / General Contractor programmes

To find out more information, please apply now for a confidential discussion.

ProSource Group is a specialist Irish recruitment company whose primary focus is recruiting within the Construction & Civil Engineering industries throughout Ireland and Europe.