Planner (SC-Cleared)

Planner | Gloucestershire 2-3 x per week | SC-Cleared | £500 - £600 a day Inside IR35Pigment is a change and transformation consultancy. We partner with other consultancies, government departments, and private sector organisations to deliver deliver long-term and sustainable change across the public sector.Due to continued success across our Defence portfolio, we are expanding our Project Controls capability for our engineering and manufacturing programmes.As such, we are seeking a Planning Consultant to join our team, who will act as the technical authority and focus on the P6 planning and scheduling function across a complex manufacturing environment. Key responsibilities:Establish and enforce strict P6 schedule hygiene, maintaining robust logic networks.Collaborate with engineering and workshop leads to map complex technical dependencies, design-to-manufacturing transitions, and multi-stage assembly sequences into P6 activities.Conduct detailed schedule variance analysis against approved P6 baselines to track project velocity and performance trends.Required experience:Proven experience building and managing complex schedules within defence or advanced, high-value manufacturing sectors.Familiarity with schedule-related metrics for Earned Value Management (EVM) systems and defence procurement life cycles.Broad experience mapping baselines across defence - ideally within manufacturing environments such as submarines, ships, nuclear, air, or land.Due to project sensitivities, ..... full job details .....