About this role
Our Business pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs. The Opportunity We are now recruiting for a Planning Manager. The Planning Manager works closely with the Project Manager to ensure that all project deliverables are identified and planned accordingly in order to deliver the project scope in a controlled manner, meeting any contractually agreed milestone dates. They are a key figure within the business; helping to drive progress within the project teams but also ensuring the business-wide load plan is updated regularly to enable accurate reporting on resource requirements against our annual business plan targets. You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence. Coordinate and lead planning sessions/workshops with Project Managers to understand key project deliverables, agree the WBS and any required logic links to produce a robust, base-lined project schedule. Work with cross-functional Department Managers and Stakeholders to understand norms & resource assignments for each activity. Using a shared resource pool across the full project portfolio, ensure that schedules are resource-loaded and projects are levelled accordingly. Work with Project Managers, Project Engineers and Department Managers to resolve any bottlenecks and risk to successful project milestones (both client driven and internal finance targets). Update and report on the business-wide load plan to ensure the Senior Management Team (SMT) are aware of any periods of over/under utilisation of resource. Facilitate weekly/monthly schedule reviews to ensure project progress is updated accurately and any slippage/risks are challenged/reported accordingly. Create reports which reflect overall project health, including s-curves and summarising slippage from baseline. Recommendations on corrective actions should also be included. More responsibilities can be found in the Role Profile.