Project Planner
IEIS is a specialist engineering services business working across water, utilities, energy, and petrochemical sectors. Set up nine years ago and growing rapidly, they deliver projects spanning weeks through to years — from pipe and steel design and fabrication through to full installation. They’re a medium-sized business with a family feel, where people grow with the company rather than getting managed from above it.
The Role
This is a newly created permanent Planner position, brought in to strengthen the core team as IEIS moves away from relying solely on contractors. You’ll work across all live projects — short-burst reactive work and longer multi-month programmes — reporting directly into the operational leadership team. The measure of success in this role isn’t just keeping programmes up to date; it’s knowing what’s coming before anyone else does and making sure the business can act on it.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Prepare and maintain baseline, tender, and contract programmes compliant with NEC, IChemE, and EPC/ME&I contracts
- Own the Accepted / Approved Programme and keep it aligned with contractual obligations and change mechanisms
- Manage an integrated business-wide programme linking all project programmes to give directors visibility of time, cost, and resource
- Demonstrate critical path, float, constraints, and assumptions across live programmes
- Support Early Warnings, Compensation Events, variations, and Extension of Time submissions
- Assess time impact of design changes, late information, access restrictions, and third-party delay
- Produce progress reports, dashboards, and programme narratives for internal and client use
- Maintain rolling lookahead programmes to support site delivery teams
- Flag issues before they become problems — proactively, not reactively
What You’ll Bring
Essential
- Proven experience planning ME&I, utilities, energy, or process projects
- Strong working knowledge of NEC and IChemE contract mechanisms
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 or ASTA
- Solid background supporting EOTs, claims, and change control processes
- Ability to produce time impact analyses and programme narratives to a contractual standard
Useful, not essential
- Experience working across multiple sectors simultaneously (water, energy, petrochemical)
- Familiarity with integrated business-level programme reporting
- Previous experience in a growing SME environment
Benefits & Culture
Financial: Salary up to £48,000 DOE | Company pension scheme
Flexibility: Hybrid working – 3 days at head office, 2 days from home
Development: As IEIS grows, you grow. The plan is that you build a team beneath you – not that someone gets promoted over you
Day-to-day: On-site parking | A team that moves fast and values people who think ahead
Working Arrangements
Location: IEIS Head Office | Hybrid: 3 days on-site, 2 from home
Contract: Permanent | Full-time
Projects: Mix of short-burst and long-span programmes across water, utilities, energy, and petrochemical sectors
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