Senior Project Planner

Description:

Senior Project Planner £60,000 to £75,000 plus up to 10% bonus and benefits
Home based, UK wide with travel to client sites
Permanent, full-time

Join a specialist project consultancy in a hands-on Senior Project Planner role supporting complex client projects and programmes across the UK.

This is a home-based position when you are not required at a client location. Depending on the assignment, travel may be required for up to 3 days per week with occasional overnight stays. Travel expenses are covered.

You will need to be comfortable joining different client environments, establishing credibility quickly and taking genuine responsibility for the quality and accuracy of project schedules.

What you will be doing
Creating, developing, maintaining and controlling project or programme schedules
Using Primavera P6 as part of your day-to-day planning work
Managing schedule logic, dependencies, milestones and sequencing
Running regular progress and schedule-update cycles
Gathering, validating and challenging progress information from project stakeholders
Analysing slippage, variance, forecast dates and other schedule implications
Working across project teams, contractors, suppliers or technical disciplines where required
Providing clear planning information to Project Managers and other delivery stakeholders
Supporting baseline, change, risk and resource-planning activities depending on the assignment
Maintaining responsibility for the credibility and integrity of the schedule
What we are looking for
Strong hands-on project planning and scheduling experience
Clear evidence of personally owning or taking substantial responsibility for project schedules
Practical Primavera P6 experience connected to schedule development, maintenance or analysis
Experience working on projects or programmes with sufficient scale, complexity or integration to operate at senior level
The ability to analyse a schedule rather than simply enter updates or produce reports
Experience working with Project Managers, engineers, delivery teams, contractors or other project stakeholders
Confidence working independently within a client environment
Willingness to travel to client sites throughout the UK and stay overnight where required
Sole British nationality and willingness to undergo UK security vetting
Experience of integrated schedules, resource planning, resource-loaded schedules, schedule risk, recovery planning, NEC or wider project controls would be useful. Relevant professional qualifications such as APM PMQ, APMG Project Planning and Control, MRICS or similar are desirable rather than essential.

You do not need to be a Primavera P6 technical specialist. You do need practical experience using P6 as a planner and enough planning judgement to take meaningful responsibility for schedules.

Salary and benefits
£60-75K base salary with some flexibility for an exceptional candidate
Bonus of up to 10%
7.5% matched pension contribution
Home-based working when not required at a client site
Travel expenses covered for client-site requirements
Support towards further commercial and role-relevant qualifications
Development opportunities across areas including P6, NEC, APM and APMG Project Planning and Control
Eligibility

Due to the nature of the work applicants must be sole British nationals and able and willing to obtain and maintain the required UK security clearance.
Existing security clearance is useful but is not normally required before joining