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• London SwSW1V 1LQ
• Posted 17th Mar 2010
• Posted by: Balfour Beatty Management
• Salary: GBP per annum + Car/Allowance+Bonus+Bens
• Job Type: Permanent
• Reference: 2255527
• This job has been viewed 181 times since it was posted.

Job Description

Purpose

• To support and enable the successful delivery of the Project, measured through the achievement of Project goals and objectives, within defined cost, quality and schedule parameters.
• To be accountable for the establishment, maintenance, quality and accuracy of all programme controls including cost, planning/scheduling, risk and issue management, quality management, change control and reporting across all disciplines.
• To ensure the Project GRACE controls are in line with PMO best practice and standards, tailored where necessary to the specific needs of the Project.
• To establish effective working relationships with the Project Team, in order to agree the Project control framework, and to ensure that all stakeholders clearly understand their required inputs.

Key Tasks

• Oversight of the planning function within the Project
• Develop/support the creation of robust work breakdown structures for all Project plans
• Support development of the plans, to a set of realistic and achievable milestones and activities to deliver the end requirements of the each work package/project
• Ensure plans are robustly resource-loaded in order to ensure effective capacity management and availability of resources
• Develop and implement the plan update and maintenance processes and reporting framework
• Optimise the delivery schedule and use of available resources
• Create and maintain the dependency map and log for the Project and support the management of those dependencies
• Implement the risk and issue management framework in line with PMO standards
• Ensure that all risks and issues are properly/robustly identified and managed within the Project
• Maintain the Project GRACE risks and issues logs
• Reporting significant/major/strategic risks and issues to the Project GRACE Management Team
• Facilitate the change control process within the Project, in terms of scope and requirements, schedule, resource and costs
• Responsible for ensuring Project adherence to best practice standards in managing delivery
• Establish the reporting framework, mechanisms and tools to ensure regular, effective Project reporting and management information
• Ensure robust cost control mechanisms are in place
• Establish a mechanism/framework to monitor Project Spend is managed relative to the delivery status and the amount of resources used

Key Skills, Competencies & Experience Required

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent
• Minimum PRINCE2 Practitioner qualified, MSP qualified an advantage
• Formal risk management qualification M_O_R or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years experience in a Programme/Project Controls role within a similar complex business environment
• Advanced Microsoft Project skills
• Experience of producing earned value reporting and undertaking earned value analysis is desirable
• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills
• Effective team player