Senior Rail Planner

Overview

In this Senior Rail Planner role, you will develop and maintain detailed rail programmes across all delivery phases, ensuring safe, efficient, and commercially successful project execution. You will provide analytics, reporting, and strategic planning advice to project teams and senior stakeholders, driving continuous improvement in project controls. You will collaborate with project managers, engineers, and clients to reflect current project status in planning outputs. This role offers a chance to shape rail delivery programs and contribute to major infrastructure work with a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated project programmes using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project
• Create baseline, target, and updated programmes and monitor progress
• Analyze performance via critical path, earned value, and schedule health checks
• Identify risks, delays, and opportunities with mitigation and recovery plans
• Produce weekly and monthly planning reports and dashboards
• Support tender, pre-construction, delivery, and close-out phases
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to reflect status in planning
• Lead planning workshops and review meetings with stakeholders
• Review subcontractor programmes for compliance
• Ensure outputs meet client standards and contractual obligations
• Assess programme impact of variations and changes for client meetings

Key requirements

• Significant planning experience within the UK rail industry
• Strong knowledge of rail infrastructure projects (renewals, enhancements, maintenance)
• Advanced user of Primavera P6
• Strong Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office skills
• Experience producing critical path analyses and recovery plans
• Excellent understanding of NEC contracts and programme requirements
• Experience supporting project controls, cost reporting, and change management
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and project documentation
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication and multi-project management

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• analytical thinking
• Primavera P6
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Office

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