Senior Project Planner

Description

• Mentor junior planners and support continuous improvement, driving planning standards and best practice across the business.
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 across the full EPC lifecycle, from initiation to closeout.
• Lead baseline and re-baseline processes, ensuring schedule alignment with scope changes and project control procedures.
• Identify schedule risks and opportunities, integrating mitigations into project plans and advising project teams on schedule impact.
• Create and manage bid-phase schedules, supporting estimating and commercial teams with planning input for competitive tenders.
• Monitor and report progress through earned value analysis, S-curves, KPIs, and critical path tracking to support performance management.
• Coordinate closely with multi-discipline teams (engineering, procurement, production) to validate planning assumptions and logic.
• Ensure compliance with client requirements and internal governance, including support for audits, reporting, and security standards.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Project Planner on complex EPC projects.
• Experience with S-curves, earned value, productivity tracking, and forecasting.
• Strong command of critical path methodology (CPM) and schedule risk identification.
• Advanced user of Primavera P6.
• Experience working with or integrating data from ERP systems (Glovia, SAP, etc.).
• Proficient in baseline creation, maintenance, and re-baselining in dynamic project environments.
• Comfortable working independently and quickly integrating into new teams or projects.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills — verbal, written, and graphical.
• You will need to be able to gain UK security clearance to be eligible for this position.
• Ability to produce high-quality planning outputs under tight bid deadlines.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance