Senior Planner - HS2

Role Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and review integrated programme and project schedules within Primavera P6.
• Monitor contractor and delivery partner programmes, assessing progress, logic, critical path, schedule health, and forecast completion dates.
• Provide independent challenge and assurance of contractor schedules, methodologies, and recovery plans.
• Analyse schedule performance, trends, milestones, float consumption, and programme risks.
• Assess time impacts of proposed changes and compensation events for change control.
• Produce regular planning and performance reports for project leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate planning workshops, schedule reviews, and risk sessions.
• Ensure compliance with programme controls standards, planning procedures, and governance requirements.
• Support integration of schedule data with cost, risk, and reporting functions.
• Identify potential delays and develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Contribute to business cases, delivery strategies, and programme-level planning activities.

Key Skills and Experience

• Significant planning and scheduling experience in major infrastructure, rail, transportation, utilities, or construction projects.
• Strong Primavera P6 expertise.
• Experience reviewing and challenging contractor programmes.
• Understanding of NEC contracts and programme management requirements.
• Knowledge of critical path analysis, earned value principles, schedule risk analysis, and programme controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to present complex schedule information to senior management and project boards.
• Experience working in a client, sponsor, or programme management environment.

Working Arrangement

• Source metadata identifies the role as hybrid.

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