Role: Planning Manager – Energy Infrastructure
Location: Remote (Regular travel to various site and office locations across the UK)
Employment: Full-time permanent
Industry: Renewable Energy/ EPC Construction
Turner Lovell are recruiting for an experienced Planning Manager to support a global client delivering major energy infrastructure projects across the UK. This is a remote role with regular travel involved across several office and site locations, but with a very reasonable amount of travel required.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead planning activities across a diverse portfolio of critical infrastructure projects, including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Data Centres, Grid Connections, HV and EHV Transmission & Distribution schemes, and wider energy transition projects. You’ll play a key role in ensuring successful programme delivery while managing and developing a high-performing planning function across multiple live projects.
We are interested in speaking with Planning Managers, Lead Planners or Senior Planning professionals who have stepped into team leadership and can show a strong track record of delivering across complex projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and developing a team of planners across multiple live projects
- Driving consistency in planning, programme control and reporting
- Supporting project teams with programme reviews, risks, milestones and change
- Challenging project data and making sure reports are accurate and useful
- Working closely with project managers, commercial teams, clients and supply chain partners
- Attending senior project and client meetings as the planning lead
- Improving planning processes, tools and ways of working across the business
Requirements
- Strong planning and scheduling experience across live construction or infrastructure projects
- Experience leading, managing or mentoring planners
- Confidence dealing with project teams, clients and senior stakeholders
- Strong understanding of programme risk, change control and reporting
- Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to engage, influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels.
- A proactive, hands-on and solutions-focused approach
- Willingness to travel regularly across UK offices and project sites
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to translate complex programme data into meaningful business insights.
If this sounds like your next challenge and you’re keen to play a key role in delivering major energy infrastructure projects, please apply or contact Yana Arif.
yana.arif@turnerlovell.com
07939 391748
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