Senior Planner

Join our team as a Senior Planner, where you will play a crucial role in the successful delivery of complex projects and programs. You will develop and manage fully integrated project and program schedules, provide expert guidance on scheduling strategy and governance, and deliver high-quality schedule analysis. You will also maintain schedule baselines, produce visual and written reporting, and communicate complex planning information to senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams. Additionally, you will mentor and guide junior planners and contribute to process improvement and capability development.

• Develop, manage, and assure fully integrated project and programme schedules with robust logic, sequencing, and critical path integrity.
• Lead planning input across bids, mobilisation, and delivery phases, providing expert guidance on scheduling strategy and governance.
• Deliver high-quality schedule analysis including critical path, scenario and “what-if” modelling, with clear options and mitigation strategies.
• Good understanding of contract requirements (NEC, JCT, FIDIC etc.)
• Broad understanding of project controls disciplines and lifecycle governance
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior planners
• Strong proficiency with planning tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Asta Powerproject etc
• Experience in a consultancy environment (advantageous)
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex planning insights clearly for senior stakeholders
• Expertise in developing and assuring integrated project and programme schedules
• Experience with schedule risk assessments, EVM reporting and integrated schedule–cost–risk analysis
• Strong capability in baseline management, change control and maintaining schedule integrity
• Planning experience on complex or multidisciplinary projects