Senior Planner

Planning Manager – Major Infrastructure

Rate: £450 per day Umbrella

Location: London

Contract: 6 month contract

All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.

We are seeking an experienced Planning Manager to support a major infrastructure project, providing leadership and technical expertise across the planning function.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex project and programme schedules across multiple contractors.
• Develop, update and monitor client programmes and critical paths.
• Identify schedule risks and issues, providing mitigation and recovery plans.
• Produce programme progress, performance and summary reports for senior stakeholders.
• Review contractor programmes, compensation events and schedule-related commercial matters.
• Lead planning workshops and agree progress reporting with contractors.
• Provide guidance and supervision to project planners.
• Improve planning processes, methodologies and reporting standards.

Essential Experience

• Strong experience in project/programme planning within major infrastructure projects.
• Good knowledge of NEC contracts, particularly compensation events.
• Experience managing contractor programmes in a multi-contract environment.
• Experience with Primavera, Primavera Enterprise or similar planning software.
• Strong critical path, schedule management and project controls experience.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and commercial awareness.

Desirable: Railway/signalling experience and knowledge of Earned Value Analysis. xwzovoh

We can only consider applications from candidates eligible to work in the UK. Please contact Marika Powell at ARM for further information.