Amentum is a premier global technical and engineering services partner. We draw from a century-old heritage of operational excellence, mission focus, and successful execution underpinned by a strong culture of safety and ethics.

We are now recruiting for an Assistant Planning Engineer to join us permanently on our major project located near Reading

Job Summary:

The Assistant Planning Engineer is responsible for assisting in the delivery of the cost reporting and cost management services to 1 or more projects and/or a programme for the Amentum E&E (UK) business unit.

Responsibilities Include:

• Assisting in the accuracy and timeliness of data communicated and reported to all Stakeholders.

• Highlighting or escalating any issues as appropriate, through the Project Controls Management structure.

• Assisting in the active contribution to continuous improvement of the functional quality and performance of Project Controls.

• Supporting the preparation of baselines during all project phases.

• Supporting the creation of a time-phased schedules.

• Supporting the preparation, monitoring, and forecasting of schedule activities within the Work breakdown structure and project end date.

• Supporting the preparation, monitoring, and forecasting against the baseline and working schedules during all the project phases.

• Supporting in the establishment and maintenance of a Basis of Schedule for all schedules produced.

• Supporting in ensuring all applicable schedule activities have rules of credit and quantity tracking mechanisms established and maintained to enable trend identification and support feedback of schedule norms.

• Maintaining the planning databases and validating the information across planning systems.

• Supporting the Commercial team with approval of contractor schedules and applications for payment relating to milestones.

• Supporting the provision of required information to support the risk process.

• Assisting in the Implementation of the project variation and change control processes and track use of contingency.

• Assisting in the generation and implementation of Change control requests.

• Supporting the preparation of schedule reports, including earned value analysis, identifying critical areas and trends and recommend recovery options/plans.

Minimum Requirements

Education/ Experience:

• Essential: Relevant qualifications or demonstrated equivalent experience

Currently hold SC or prepared to go through the SC process.

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