Senior Planner - Engineering

A leading premium automotive business and leading to move towards electric autonomous vehicles.

WHAT TO EXPECT

JLR have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Planner to join their team where you will have exposure to the whole business and work across all their industry leading products and platforms. As Senior Planner you’ll lead the creation of programme plans that deliver our exciting £15bn portfolio of future vehicles. Acting as a guide for the programme manager you will assure agile, on-time, delivery and help the team proactively navigate timing risks using our professional scheduling tool Primavera P6.

Responsibilities include developing credible vehicle programme plans (VPFs), updating schedule progress, analysing and reporting on the critical path, and facilitating workshops to resolve timing disconnects.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Lead creation and management of integrated programme plans using Primavera P6.
• Ensure credible delivery schedule in place; meeting quality metrics and baselined as appropriate.
• Identify areas of risk and conflict within the plans and facilitate identification of mitigations.
• Compile management reports and associated metrics to support senior reviews.
• Drive process improvements and seek to develop and share knowledge with peers.
• Ensure compliance with all data quality and systems alignment standards.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• A planning mindset; including understanding the principles of schedule creation, management, and critical path analysis.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills to enable you to identify, navigate, and help resolve any issues in the plan.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

• A background in planning/forecasting for large scale businesses, identifying roadblocks and providing mitigation or solutions.
• Previous experience in planning the delivery of products from conception through to completion.
• Experience in the use of schedule management software (e.g. Primavera P6 or MS Project).
• Good understanding of project management principles e.g. waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Experience of working on major, multi-year, programmes (e.g. Auto, Aero, Defence, Nuclear, Rail, Oil and Gas, Tech Industry, or similar).