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Senor Project Planner at Lockheed Martin in Ampthill, England, GB
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Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Senor Project Planner
Posting Start Date: 10/13/26
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Project Planner to join our Programme Management team at our Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a 4-day working week Monday - Thursday and hybrid working.
You’ll work full days onsite Monday and Tuesday and you may be required to be onsite on a Wednesday and/or Thursday subject to business needs.
You’ll play a key role in supporting the end-to-end planning lifecycle — from proposal to execution — helping deliver some of the UK’s most complex and innovative engineering programmes.
What You'll Be Doing
- Maintain the end-to-end lifecycle of planning and schedule management in support of programme capture and execution.
- Lead proposal preparation planning including development of planning artefacts for solicitation response. Interfaces with program management, senior management and the contractual customer as the programs planning integrator.
- Manage the validation of cost and schedule integration for effective program performance management.
- Manage the vertical and horizontal integration between all schedules and other program artefacts compliant with LM's command media.
- Manage the modelling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline.
- Manage the resolution of schedule conflicts, develops and implements work-around strategies and tactical alternatives.
- Utilises performance and health metrics to communicate actions to the programme team resulting in improved program performance.
- Maintenance and status updates of the IMS on a weekly & monthly basis.
- Manage the Maintenance of the Performance Measurement Baseline.
- Support to the Project Business Rhythm.
- Manage the generation of Schedule Information for client and management reviews.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- 4-day working week (Mon–Thu) – enjoy a true work–life balance.
- Hybrid working – 2-4 days a week onsite depending on business needs
- Collaborative culture – work alongside some of the brightest minds in UK engineering.
- Be part of an organisation delivering cutting-edge Defence and technology programmes that make a real impact.
The successful candidate must achieve the appropriate level (DV) of security clearance. More details can be found here
Required skills, qualifications and experience
- Experience as a Project Planner, or similar PMO Planning role
- Experience of Primavera P6, or similar Planning software
- Experience of managing Resource loaded Schedules
- Experience of Earned Value Management and Critical Path Management
- A confident individual who will ensure that best planning practice is always adhered to, even in occasional pressurised situations
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
- Ability to quickly adapt to new tools, systems, and processes
Desired Skills
- Active SC or DV clearance
- SAP cost planning & reporting
- Background in Defence, MoD, or other complex engineering environments