Planning Manager

Overview

In this role, you drive project controls and scheduling across a water sector capital delivery portfolio, ensuring safe, efficient delivery and strong stakeholder collaboration. You will support due diligence, strategic development, and governance while promoting best practices and knowledge sharing. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams to align delivery with strategic objectives and enhance planning performance. This is an opportunity to impact large, complex programmes within a values-driven firm that prioritises safety, integrity, and client focus.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible, hybrid working options

Responsibilities

• Apply health and safety expertise across project portfolios
• Foster an inclusive, supportive environment focused on wellbeing
• Direct key assignments aligning delivery with strategic objectives
• Strengthen planning performance and project scheduling
• Support due diligence, negotiation and long-term strategic development
• Build strong stakeholder relationships through effective communication
• Share knowledge, innovate and drive best practice across teams

Key requirements

• Typically 5 years relevant experience
• Appropriate degree and technical qualifications with significant experience in Project Controls/Planning and Scheduling/Programme Delivery on large complex projects
• Good knowledge of design and build techniques, methods and durations with ability to plan and schedule detailed bottom-up construction programmes
• Good knowledge and experience with Primavera
• Membership of professional bodies (APM, RICS, CIOB, ICE, AACE, IRM, IEMA or equivalent)

• Stakeholder communication and relationship building
• Inclusive and supportive teamwork
• Adaptability and continuous improvement mindset
• Project Controls
• Planning and Scheduling
• Programme Delivery

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