Organisation - Head of PMO
Job - Programme Management
Position Type - Full Time
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Position Type: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Grade: PB3
Salary: Circa £55k - flexibility on salary and dependent on experience (Plus competitive Benefits and open to negotiation).
Location: TfL Offices London with a mixture of hybrid working

THE CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY AT 23:59HRS.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit Planning Managers within Transport for London.
TfL is responsible for some of the highest profile, most complex and diverse infrastructure work in the UK. Our projects keep a world city moving for 8.6 million people and we do this through our teams of talented people.
TfL delivers critical portfolios of projects to make journeys better for our customers. Our projects vary from enhancing our stations, trains, tracks, and roads to multi £billion programmes to invest in our infrastructure and the technology that supports it.
Our core values of delivering safely, sustainably, reliably, and affordably are at the heart of every project. People are the key to our success and by making sure we share knowledge, skills, and expertise across our programmes we enhance both your career and how we deliver for London.
We are now looking for talented Planning Managers to join us to work on a wide variety of exciting and high-profile projects and programmes. You will assist with the day-to-day management of external contractors/suppliers and support the implementation of projects. This includes management of TfL obligations, contractors, Private Finance Initiative (PFI) suppliers, or other third-party partners, to ensure delivery of projects on behalf of TfL, meeting the needs of our customers.
TfL is an inclusive and flexible organisation, committed to developing you. We are looking for both experienced Planning Managers and people with potential and the ability to demonstrate a passion for planning management.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Good communication skills to enable successful management of schedules with an environment that has multiple stakeholders.
• Good influencing skills to manage and motivate teams.
• Ability to embed Planning Management methodology and process in support of delivery of high risk, value, and complex projects/programmes.
• Analysis of complex data to draw conclusions and produce reports.

Required technical skills include:

• Project / Programme Office (L3 – Practitioner)
• Project Management (L3 – Practitioner)
• Stakeholder Management (L4 – Expert)
• Planning (L4 – Expert)
• Budgeting and Cost Management (L3 – Practitioner)
• Information Management and Reporting (L3 – Practitioner)
• Schedule Risk Analysis (L3 – Practitioner)
• Earned Value Management (L3 – Practitioner)
• Primavera P6 Enterprise scheduling software (L4 – Expert)
• Microsoft Project scheduling software (L3 – Practitioner)

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE:

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of capital projects and programmes with an emphasis on Planning and how this supports and integrates with a wider high functioning environment.
• Extensive knowledge of PPM Systems and Tools especially in regard to the Planning discipline.
• Knowledge of the professional disciplines of programme and project management in the context of complex capital projects with expertise in Planning.
• Knowledge of different Commercial arrangements, NEC3/4 contractual obligations and their impact of project controls management with an emphasis on Planning methodology.
• Awareness of safety issues in an operational environment.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE

• Domain knowledge of the planning, design and construction activities undertaken across a number of TfL project areas; namely track, signalling, stations, civils, or surface projects.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience of creating, adapting, and monitoring planning in major projects and/or construction or asset renewal projects managing to time, quality, and budget.
• Experience of dealing with a range of stakeholders at all levels across the organisation influencing improving process and guidance to support project delivery and reporting.
• Experience building critical path schedules from knowledge and first principles, interviewing and leading workshops with project resources to understand progress and performance across a programme of critical path projects.
• Experience of using time scheduling software

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please apply using your CV and a covering letter (maximum two pages).
Please think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description and ensure your CV and cover letter reflects the requirements of the role you are applying for. Short listing will be carried out on the basis of answers to any pre-screening questions and the information on your CV and covering letter.
As part of the application process for this position, you are required to upload both a CV and a Covering Letter to your application before submitting. To be compatible with our anonymisation software, these must be in Microsoft Word doc.x format. Failure to upload documents in this format means that they may not be processed. Applications with either CV or Covering Letter missing will be classed as incomplete and will not be progressed.
For this recruitment campaign, as part of TfL’s continuing commitment to be an inclusive and equal opportunity employer we will be removing personal identifiable information from your application that could cause discrimination.

The Planning Manager is responsible for supporting the Project Management Office (PMO) Planning function by providing direction, leadership, guidance, and management of the embedded planning resources. The Planner should assist Project or Programme Manager(s) with producing and reporting budget loaded work programmes/schedules, for the purpose of co-ordinating works with Contractors and other third parties. To create and update programme data in compliance with PMO centralised requirements. To provide analysis and assist in the interpretation of all reports produced within TfL.