Senior Planner - SMR

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of integrated programme and project schedules.
• Establish and manage planning baselines, critical paths, milestones, and key delivery dependencies.
• Provide expert schedule analysis, forecasting, and performance assessments.
• Identify, assess, and communicate schedule risks, opportunities, and emerging issues.
• Recommend mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Prepare and present planning data, reports, and insights to senior stakeholders.
• Apply planning processes, methodologies, and controls consistently across assigned programmes and projects.
• Lead scenario planning and schedule optimisation activities.
• Coordinate alignment between engineering, procurement, manufacturing, licensing, and construction activities.
• Assess schedule impacts during change management and maintain accurate programme forecasts.
• Mentor Project Planners and junior planning resources and promote planning best practice.

Key Attributes

• Advanced planning, scheduling, and project controls expertise.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities for interpreting complex project data.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including engagement with senior leadership teams.
• Ability to influence project outcomes through data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Experience in large-scale engineering, infrastructure, energy, nuclear, or other highly regulated environments.
• A proactive, collaborative, and delivery-focused approach.

Working Arrangement

• Source metadata identifies the role as hybrid.

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