Senior Planner

Skills

• Strong leadership and influencing skills with a proven ability to manage and motivate distributed teams.
• Demonstrable experience in planning and scheduling within major Infrastructure programmes of significant size and complexity.
• Expert user of Primavera P6.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and managing integrated programme schedules, progress management systems, and delay analysis.
• In‑depth understanding of planning tools such as Microsoft Project and other scheduling software.
• Experience working in multi‑disciplinary project teams with complex interface and dependency management requirements.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills at all levels.
• High degree of planning rigour, attention to detail, and ability to work under pressure.
• Skilled in critical path analysis, resource levelling, schedule risk analysis (e.g., Monte Carlo simulation), and performance reporting.
• Proactive and analytical approach with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.

What you will contribute to the team

• Directing the application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques and tools.
• Providing advice on complex requirements and communicating analysis and corrective measures effectively.
• Managing the planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high projects/programmes.
• Providing effective and timely advice to clients.
• Understanding of data management.
• Sequencing and scheduling the works across the project/programme.
• Establishing and maintaining baselines and ensuring project control mechanisms are in place to monitor performance.
• Working closely with the client and main contractors.
• Reviewing overall project status with the project management team and recommending corrective actions.
• Managing the project plan and reporting to the programme controls lead.
• Collecting and interpreting schedule data and providing output to the programme and project teams.
• Interacting with functional leads and programme leads to obtain schedule updates.
• Monitoring actual performance against the schedule to identify delay, early and late completion.
• Interfacing with the project technical staff to define changes to schedules and identification of variances from the original plan.
• Identifying and analysing associated schedule, resource conflicts and potential cost impacts and issues.

Candidate Specification

• Construction contractor planning background would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of NEC3/4.
• Knowledge of OPC would be useful but not essential.
• Hybrid working – initially 4 days per week then likely to move to 3 days.
• UK wide opportunities.
• In‑depth knowledge of schedule management tools and software.
• Digitally savvy.
• Build lasting client relationships.
• Lead strong, motivated teams.
• Experience in construction, programme, project or commercial management.

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