01/2007 – 10/2008           Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering/Metronet         Track Enabling Works Planner

The job involved using the Track Renewal Programme for the London Underground to make changes to the Track Enabling Works schedule. Failure to deliver on time cost millions of pounds making our working environment fast paced and high pressured.

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

§Making sure the schedule was properly resourced for the financial year and highlight potential areas of increased need

§Progress reporting each period, earned value analysis and monitoring

§Bi weekly meeting with project managers and track designers to discuss changes to the track renewal programme and any other issues that could affect Track Enabling Works

§Create revised plans to cover changes in the Track Renewal Programme and report on the impact on current works

§Keeping engineers informed of changes to the programme

§Use change control procedures to keep track of changes to the programme and maintaining a change log

§Automated & improved Summary Programme used by Engineers to make it easier to track changes to the Track Renewal Programme

§Improved programme layout and set up to make updating the programme easier and also tracking progress

§Worked on cleansing asset and structure databases from the two main structures programmes thus greatly reducing duplicated work between teams

Improved programme progress reporting by making changes to the team progress trackers