Senior Planner

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General information

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Framatome is an international leader in nuclear energy recognized for its innovative, digital and value added solutions for the global nuclear fleet. With worldwide expertise and a proven track record for reliability and performance, the company designs, services and installs components, fuel, and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants. Its more than 18,000 employees work every day to help Framatome's customers supply ever cleaner, safer and more economical low-carbon energy. Visit us at www.framatome.com, and follow us on Twitter: @Framatome_ and LinkedIn: Framatome.
Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI – 19.5%).  

Reference number

2025-21565  

Publication date

3/17/2025

Job details

Category

G - PROJECT MANAGEMENT - G2 - Project Control

Job Opening Title

Senior Planner

Job type

Non fixed term

BU description

Installed Base BU is in charge for Framatome's nuclear engineering and services for operating nuclear plants, for new build projects and for installations in decommissioning phase.

The Installed base BU has more than 60 years of international experience in all types of technologies on more than 380 reactors worldwide.

With 4,600 employees in 15 countries, the Installed Base BU has a strong identity and its vision is to: “Deliver innovative products and services by putting our high-level skills to work to guarantee throughout the world a safe and competitive, low carbon source of energy.”

Job description

Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet.

With 14,000 employees worldwide, and over 300 strong in the UK, our plans are to grow to 400-500 by 2025 through the development our UK nuclear service offerings

Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI – 19.5%) 

Due to our ongoing and rapid growth, we are looking to recruit a Project Planner ideally to be based at Sizewell B in Suffolk. 

 

The Senior Planner is responsible not only for maintaining integrated master project schedules and associated artefacts within their delegated area of responsibility, but also owning the tools and processes used to generate this and supporting outputs. These outputs will be one of the core project controls outputs in support of project management and customer/ business reporting requirements, and the role is responsible for ensuring that all outputs produced by junior staff that feed into this are suitable and timely.

This role is expected to produce outputs within the planning sub-discipline but to also engage with other sub-discipline leads to ensure outputs are integrated and aligned. This role is expected to work autonomously with little oversight and guidance, and will coach, support and direct junior staff in producing supporting outputs.

Key activities will include:

  • Maintain master project schedules for large projects/ collections of projects in an area by establishing and maintaining the overall structure, delegating responsibilities to more junior staff, and assuring their outputs before integrating these back into the master programme.

  • Lead the planning process on large or complex projects, taking the integrated project team from requirement through to WBS through to the baselined schedule.

  • Lead on integrated master-level schedule reporting and outputs to the business and customer including Earned Value Management (EVM), resource analysis, schedule performance and milestone reporting.

  • Own the tools, processes, guidance and templates for the Planning discipline used on their projects/ in their area, and being an advocate for these processes by promoting engagement with them across the business to foster buy-in and adoption.

Key outputs will include: 

  • Master Programme Schedules
  • Complex PBS, WBS, OBS and RAM
  • Programme level EVM reporting
  • Programme level schedule reporting
  • Programme/ business line level resource analysis
  • Complex Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) model and reports (supporting RAID manager)
  • Planning tool configuration, settings and structure (e.g. calendars)
  • Planning process guidance, templates and quality standards

Profile

To be considered, the Senior Planner is expected to hold the following:

  • APMG Project Planning & Controls (PPC) Practitioner
  • APM Project Fundamentals Qualification
  • APMG Earned Value Management Practitioner
  • ECITB Planning & Scheduling Practice (or other equivalent Planning qualification)
  • APM Full Membership

It is desirable they hold, or aim to gain within 2 years, the following:

  • APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
  •  ILM Level 3 Award in Management
  • NEC3/4 Training

Person Specification: 

An entrant into the Senior Planner role is likely someone who has spent a significant amount of time in dedicated planning roles (5+ years) working on large and complex programmes. They may not have had experience managing teams of planners or integrating the outputs of less senior planners and project controls staff into a master plan, but they have the technical knowledge to be able to do this and have had experience coaching and guiding junior staff in planning. They must be more than just adept users of scheduling software, being able to guide teams through the planning process and work with teams to generate quality inputs to the planning & scheduling process through questioning, challenging and validating data.

An established Senior Planner will have had 1-2+ years of experience maintaining a master programme that is fed in to by multiple project controls staff of various levels of experience.

Benefits

In return, we are offering a salary of  up to £75,000 plus excellent benefits to include:

  • 25 days annual leave per year raising to 30 (1 day for every 2 years service)
  • 8% Employer pension contribution (salary sacrifice) – 1% min Employee
  • Individual and family private health care
  • Life assurance (4x salary)
  • Employee assistance programme (EAP)
  • Income Protection
  • Professional Body Membership (1 per year)
  • Plus more including access to training and development opportunities.
     

We are an equal opportunity employer.  We value and plan to continue to build on the benefits of our diverse working environment and recognise a priority to improve gender mix.

Everyone will be considered without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

Job location

Job location

United Kingdom

Job location (site)

Sizewell (UK)

Job family

Standard

Applicant criteria

Minimum level of education required

Bachelor

Minimum level of experience required

Experienced

Employment level

Non cadre

Extra informations

Background checking required ?

Yes