Project Planner

Overview

As a Project Planner at Devonport Royal Dockyard, you help drive the delivery of complex infrastructure programmes within the PMO. You’ll work with project managers, engineers and supply chain partners to keep schedules aligned with costs, risks and change. You’ll contribute to planning, performance reporting and critical path analysis across the Capital Investment Portfolio. This role offers hybrid working and exposure to a broad engineering environment where your planning impact supports safe, on-time delivery and cross-functional collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme
• Aviva DigiCare+ health services
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Be Kind Day

Responsibilities

• Provide planning and scheduling support across a portfolio of infrastructure projects
• Prepare and deliver schedule reports and performance information
• Maintain project schedules and align programme plans with costs
• Assist with critical path analysis, schedule variance reporting and spend forecasting
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, commercial and supply chain teams to support delivery
• Coordinate activities and track progress across project teams

Key requirements

• Knowledge of project planning, scheduling or project controls principles
• Experience developing, maintaining and monitoring project schedules and programme plans
• Experience coordinating activities and tracking progress across project teams
• Understanding of how cost, risk, estimating and change management interact with project schedules
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across multidisciplinary teams
• SC security clearance eligibility (or ability to obtain)

• Stakeholder engagement
• Collaborative working across multidisciplinary teams
• Strong communication skills
• Primavera P6 scheduling software
• Project planning and controls principles

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