Job Description

Project Planner

Competitive Day Rate inside IR35

Contract Length: 90 working days

Working 4 days per week (30 hours)

Location: Hybrid - 3 days in Bristol, occasional travel to Portsmouth

Our Defence client is currently looking for a Maritime Project Planner Maritime / Naval background to help deliver critical programme outcomes.

Top 3 essential criteria:

1. Evidence of Cat A project schedule delivery in MOD / DE&S

2. Evidence of role played in delivering project plan, project schedule

3. Evidence that they have worked in MOD project delivery or in industry facing MOD within the last 3 months

Minimum Requirement:

* Active SC Clearance

* Experience of supporting Project Delivery in an MOD / ideally DE&S environment

* UK MOD maritime experience, preferably torpedoes / submarine related

* Able to craft and own a detailed project schedule, Level 1 plan, and work breakdown structure

* Ability to contribute to project milestones against demanding performance, cost, and time constraints

* Comfort in working with minimal daily supervision to deliver key outputs

* Able to look ahead and anticipate challenges, craft solutions, and resolve them, referring to the Project manager for guidance

* Comfortable working in the Cat A project delivery environment, understand the assurance and scrutiny requirements required and able to work through delivery friction at pace

* Able to use in place IT systems (MODNet) to deliver effective MOD compliant staff work that stands 2* scrutiny

* Experience of MODNet / MS Suite of tools / DE&S project management and risk tools

* DE&S project management delivery experience

* Managing Successful Programs (MSP)

* APMP - Project Management

* PRINCE 2

* APMP - Management of Risk (MoR)

* We need either APMP or PRINCE 2, MSP would be a nice to have as would be MoR