Vanderlande are looking for a Specialist Planner to join their growing Airports and Parcels Operations Team.
As a Specialist Planner, reporting into the Planning Manager, you will be responsible for planning all project activities. You will clearly set out decision moments and turnaround times for and with all disciplines involved in a project. You will construct and set up project plans, ensuring that any opportunities and/or threats are identified in good time. Armed with your information and reports, project managers, project leaders and subcontractors and their teams will be in a position to set or adjust their course promptly, wherever they are in the world. You will play a leading role in the projects in which you are involved. You will report to project management and be required to produce monthly project reports.
You will set priorities, identify problems, and take the necessary steps to resolve them (as part of a multidisciplinary approach). You will be involved in every phase of a project: from engineering, supply and shipping to the commissioning of systems.
You will work closely with other disciplines, such as sales, project management, project engineering and the supply chain. You will be the key person in a project, as which you will maintain an overview of the consequences of the difference between the expectations of project management and the possibilities offered by the supply chain. You and your team will ensure that projects are completed successfully.

• Effectively translating the scope of a project into an overall project plan, sometimes with minimal input
• from others.
• Identifying the critical path in a project plan and the corresponding opportunities and risks
• Coordinating a project plan with the customer and subcontractors, so that an integrated project plan is achieved.
• Liaising with all of the internal and external parties involved in a project.
• Reporting on the progress being made with a project to the relevant Project Manager.
• Analysing and giving solicited and unsolicited advice on overall project plans
• Preparing complex plans in consultation with project team members, subcontractors, suppliers, customers and stakeholders.
• Willing to give guidance and mentoring to more Junior members of the team.
• Leading on one or multiple complex projects and have strong experience in building programmes from scratch