Project Planner Rail
Egis
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
We design and operate intelligent infrastructure and buildings capable of responding to the climate emergency and helping to achieve more balanced, sustainable and resilient territorial development.
With operations in 120 countries, Egis places the expertise of its 18,000 employees at the disposal of its clients and develops cutting-edge innovation accessible to all projects.
Improving people's quality of life and supporting communities in their social and economic development, whilst drastically reducing carbon emissions and achieving vital 2050 net zero targets, that's our purpose.Reference 2023-10884Position descriptionJob titleProject Planner RailContract typePermanent contractBusiness Line specific contextEgis Ireland is part of the wider Egis global consulting and engineering group working in construction, transport and mobility services. Joining our Group and its 16,000 employees means, above all, sharing our values as a people-first group, strongly committed to sustainability and innovation.The Cork Area Commuter Rail (CACR) programme is a heavy rail upgrade and comprises a series of projects that will create a fully integrated metropolitan area rail network for Cork. As part of the project, the Signalling, Electrical and Telecoms (SET) infrastructure will be enhanced and developed for circa 62km of the network from Mallow through Cork to Cobh/Midleton. Egis has been appointed by Irish Rail to manage the contract for the D&B Contractor who will provide all civil engineering and SET works to support the upgrade. This includes re-signalling across the 3 main routes primarily over existing alignments extending the CACR system.Egis is seeking a Project Planner to be part of the team to ensure that all disciplines work in an integrated mannerJob description
- Coordinating with all team members to update the schedules and different reports for different projects whenever required minimum of once a week.
- Creating a checklist as per the client's and internal team members' comments and addressing all of them in the programme. Also, sharing the checklist with all to finally keep everyone on the same information plane.
- Assisting Project Manager concerning Project Management (scheduling, reporting, interfacing, deadlines, risks etc.) on a weekly basis to ensure projects run as planned timelines and budget.
- Creating and risk analysing the schedules as per Dependencies and benefits for projects by studying the Critical Path and informing the same to the team
- Working with the areas of the project team to plan, analyses and manage project information on behalf of the various stakeholders and involved throughout all the stages of the projects.
- Working as a team coordinator engaged with Project Manager and Project senior engineers to manage team requirements and maintain Client expectations.
- Creating & presenting regular Schedules and reports as required by the Project Manager, Project Teams, and Clients.
- Creating Tender Schedules for upcoming projects whenever required
- Producing and Managing programs and different Trackers for multiple projects from initiation to execution enhancing business values across different delivery dimensions
- Estimate timescales, monitors the progress, review update of schedules and analyze the data to identify the trends and threats so that further team can work on solutions on a regular basis.
- Ensure all additional works (variations) are incorporated & impacted in the schedules respecting the deadlines.
- Resource loading the project and tracking the same accordingly keep every responsible resource informed regarding their deadlines.
- Cross-checking our approach with the client's schedule if required to keep both schedules streamlined.
- Monitor, review, and report on project programme.
- Support production of monthly reports on key areas such as progress reports, critical path, milestones, P6 reports etc.
- Programme planning in accordance with IE PMP-003 Project Scheduling Procedure
- Monitor programme and track, record and predict out-turn programme dates.
- Prepare a cost and resource-loaded programme that will be the integrated project work plan and programme. Accruals and Prepayments schedules to be updated monthly.
- 3rd level qualification in relevant engineering/construction subject
- 5+ years' experience / demonstrable ability to develop and implement project schedules/plans and to monitor and control work programmes. Experience of railway-related projects is an advantage.
- Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 or Equivalent Planning Software, Microsoft Office tools - Excellent report writing skills. Experience and familiarity with Time Chainage programmes are an advantage.
- Time management is essential to satisfy the demands of a busy schedule. Ability to manage multiple projects working across several design teams both local and remote.