The role of a project planner within Omexoms Major Projects South Business Unit is to support a team of project management professionals by constructing plans (referred to as programmes) to achieve the building of electrical substations across the UK.
This is accomplished using specialist software that allows a time phased sequence of tasks to be developed that can be used to inform the project team of what needs to happen, and when it needs to happen, to complete a substation build on time.
During the project period, the plan is frequently revised according to latest information, and the planners responsibility is to tell the team the consequences and impacts of the change in sequenced tasks on the delivery timescales and important project dates.