Area Planner for Major Infrastructure Programme

Millbank Holdings Ltd; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Millbank Holdings Ltd is recruiting an experienced Area Planner to join a major UK infrastructure programme during a critical delivery phase. You will work with senior delivery teams to drive planning excellence, provide strategic schedule oversight, and ensure alignment between project controls, reporting and delivery objectives.

The role suits planners who have worked across full lifecycles in highly regulated environments, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and external partners to

Qualifications

• Demonstrable planning experience gained within complex and highly regulated industries.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and managing planning integration across large projects.
• A strong understanding of integrated planning frameworks and project controls methodologies.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining schedules on major infrastructure or capital projects.
• Advanced knowledge of planning and project controls software.
• The ability to analyse complex information and provide strategic planning insight to support delivery teams.
• Experience supporting projects through significant stages of the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Driving an area-based planning framework that integrates reporting requirements and project interdependencies.
• Developing and maintaining integrated work schedules with fully logic linked work plans aligned to project breakdown structures
• Supporting project leadership teams in assessing risks and opportunities through evidence-based planning analysis and reporting.
• Reviewing and challenging delivery performance and schedule reporting to improve project outcomes.
• Producing accurate and timely planning and schedule reports for key stakeholders.
• Supporting the development and optimisation of project baseline schedules and delivery sequences.
• Capturing and sharing lessons learned to drive continuous improvement within the planning function.
• Analysing project information to identify trends, risks and opportunities that support informed decision making.
• Collaborating with internal teams, contractors and supply chain partners to achieve successful project delivery
• Managing schedule trends and changing processes, producing performance indicators and identifying areas of risk and opportunity.
• Integrating supplier schedules and planning information into the overall programme.
• Ensuring project scheduling standards, governance and procedures are consistently applied.
• Maintaining compliance with project documentation and information management requirements.

Skills

Planning experience

Stakeholder management

Integrated scheduling

Project controls

Analytical thinking

Education

Engineering/Construction degree

Tools

Planning software

Job description

Millbank Holdings Ltd is recruiting an experienced Area Planner to join a major UK infrastructure programme during a critical delivery phase. You will work with senior delivery teams to drive planning excellence, provide strategic schedule oversight, and ensure alignment between project controls, reporting and delivery objectives.

The role suits planners who have worked across full lifecycles in highly regulated environments, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and external partners to