About the role
Senior Planner – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Peterborough / Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week office or site‑based)
Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of the Anglian Water’s one Alliance, a collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners. Together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
Entering AMP 8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we’re tackling nature‑based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes, setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.
As Senior Planner, you will play a critical role within an integrated project delivery team, taking full ownership of project programmes and ensuring plans are robust, accurate and effectively maintained. Working closely with site, commercial and engineering teams, you will drive delivery performance, proactively manage risk, and challenge delay or deviation to achieve successful project outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Control
- Develop and maintain detailed project programmes in line with @one Alliance and Anglian Water requirements
- Lead collaborative digital planning and production meetings to ensure clarity of scope, sequencing and delivery expectations
- Liaise closely with delivery teams to ensure consistency in planning methodology and outputs
- Identify risks and opportunities, driving mitigation strategies to protect key milestones
4D Planning & Reporting
- Develop 4D animations and digital rehearsals to support construction planning and execution
- Gather progress updates, analyse impacts on critical paths and key dates, and challenge teams to maintain momentum
- Attend site regularly to capture accurate programme information
Communication & Quality
- Clearly communicate programme priorities, critical activities and constraints to project teams
- Provide project‑specific planning reports and attend relevant meetings as required
- Maintain high planning standards, ensuring programme integrity and alignment with cost forecasts
- Promote best practice and continuous improvement across the alliance
Who we’re looking for
What We’re Looking For
- Extensive experience delivering large‑scale, high‑value civil engineering projects, ideally within the water sector
- Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 (essential)
- Experience using 4D planning tools and techniques
- Ability to interpret technical drawings and extract key planning insights
- Excellent communication skills, able to present complex information clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to work collaboratively within multi‑disciplinary teams
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to health and safety
We’re looking for a pivotal role within an innovative alliance redefining major infrastructure programmes. If you’re ready to make an impact during AMP8, we want to hear from you.
Benefits
- Smart working with flexible start and finish times, up to 40% remote working when roles allow
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner’s leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteer leave, recognition schemes and more
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects, and regional investment programmes for National Highways, putting the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions, and add social value to the communities where we work.
Diversity and inclusion
We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential for a successful workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we grow a diverse workforce and foster an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential. We support disability, veterans, and receive membership in several inclusion forums.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, committed to working with people with disabilities and long‑term health conditions. Applicants with a disability that meet the minimum requirements will be offered an interview. For more information visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
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