Planning Engineers – (PMCM / Rail & Transport)

Overview

As a Planning Engineer in WSP’s PMCM Planning & Scheduling team, you will help create and maintain robust programmes for major UK infrastructure, energy, and rail projects. You’ll collaborate with project managers, engineers and delivery partners to enable on-time delivery and support evidence-based decisions. This role offers exposure to high-profile nationwide programmes and opportunities to develop your planning expertise within a global consultancy. You’ll contribute to shaping major infrastructure delivery while advancing your career in a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

Pay / Benefits

• work-life balance
• hybrid working
• flexible and part-time options
• benefits including Thrive wellbeing programme
• gymflex scheme
• chartership support

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project programmes from first principles
• Analyse schedules using industry-standard planning tools
• Support integrated project teams to deliver complex infrastructure or capital projects
• Contribute to programme reporting, change/risk management and schedule assurance
• Prepare basis of schedule documents and schedule narratives
• Facilitate planning workshops with multi-disciplinary teams and clients
• Support NEC schedule assurance and project performance analysis

Key requirements

• Experience in planning and scheduling within infrastructure, construction, energy, or regional rail
• Ability to develop plans from first principles and maintain schedules
• Experience working in integrated project teams and applying project controls methodologies including EVM
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret project data
• Excellent client communication and stakeholder management
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel

• client communication
• stakeholder management
• problem-solving
• industry-standard planning and scheduling software
• schedule analysis and basis of schedule
• Earned Value Management (EVM)

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