Capital Planning Co-Ordinator

Anglian Water Services; Peterborough, Huntingdon, Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Flexible working

26 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water Services in the UK is seeking a Capital Planning Co-Ordinator to develop and manage an integrated master schedule for Capital Delivery within the Alliance. You will coordinate with the Central Programme Manager, Programme Lead and Planning Compliance Lead to ensure schedules are realistic and aligned with project milestones.

The role requires strong knowledge of enterprise planning tools, risk-based prioritisation, and effective stakeholder engagement across alliance partners.

Qualifications

• Experience with NEC or similar contract frameworks.
• Strong PM discipline across time, cost, quality.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and control integrated programme schedules across Alliance Capital Delivery.
• Create detailed project plans with milestones and dependencies.
• Monitor progress and identify schedule variances.
• Lead risk-based prioritisation and resource allocation.
• Collaborate with Partner Managers to align scopes with milestones.
• Embed risk management into delivery decisions.
• Support monthly, quarterly and annual programme updates.
• Provide governance oversight and challenge to optimise outputs.

Skills

Project management

Schedule development

Risk management

CPM analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Microsoft Project

Primavera P6

Job description

Capital Planning Co-Ordinator

Salary: circa £40,000

Location: Peterborough, Huntingdon or Norwich/with Hybrid working

Working Hours:Full-time / 37 hours

Who are we?

Integrated Maintenance and Repair of Water Recycling (IMR-WR) provide repair and maintenance services on the wastewater network infrastructure across the Anglian Region, including planned and emergency works, construction of new assets, surveys, blockages, and ancillary/support activities.

Key deliverables that IMR WR provide include maintenance and repair of sewers, rising mains, manholes, SUDS (sustainable urban drainage systems), street furniture, construction of new assets, surveys (e.g., CCTV), clearance of blockages, and support activities (e.g. reinstatement, tankering, technical support).

The alliance is comprised of five partners: Anglian Water, Clancy Docwra, Claret Civil Engineering, Public Sewer Services Utilities and Danaher & Walsh.

What you will be doing as our Capital Planning Co-Ordinator

You’ll be responsible for development an integrated schedule of works for Capital Delivery in the Alliance. It will involve the creation, management, and updating of a master schedule of works that can be used to communicate the development of Capital Delivery throughout the process steps required to complete the work. It will work closely with the Central Programme Manager, Programme Lead, Planned Works Manager and Planning Compliance Lead. Coordination is expected to occur with the Partner Operational Managers to ensure the schedule is accurate and realistic.

This Capital Delivery schedule of works will feed as a sub-schedule into accurate updating of the Alliance Accepted Programme and will be referred to by the Partner Management Group to ensure outputs, resources, and forecasts are realistic and committed to.

The role provides independent challenge, governance oversight, and risk-based prioritisation of work, ensuring delivery decisions optimise performance outcomes, regulatory compliance, and support the Alliance NEC contractual position.

This role will also support the effective management of Engineering resources, working across alliance partners, client stakeholders and internal functions to balance risk, cost, and delivery across the updated; monthly, quarterly and annual programme.

The role is critical in ensuring that both Programme and Operational decisions are evidence-led, commercially sound, as well as aligned to Anglian Water’s strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and control integrated programme and project schedules across the Alliance Capital Delivery portfolio
• Create and update detailed project plans, including milestones, dependencies, critical paths and resource requirements
• Monitor programme progress against approved baselines and identify schedule variances
• Analyse schedule performance and provide early warning of potential delays, risks and opportunities
• Lead the risk-based prioritisation of Capital work programmes, engineering resource allocation, and ensuring alignment between operational delivery teams and scheduled works
• Collaborate with partner Parcel Managers and Engineers to ensure scopes are developed in line with the agreed delivery milestones (DM1 - 3)
• Work with Partner Operation Managers and Parcel Managers to embed risk management into project and programme delivery
• Lead and influence cross-functional teams and alliance partners without direct authority

Key Skills & Behaviours

• Demonstrable experience using enterprise planning software such as Microsoft Project and/or Primavera P6
• Experienced in CDM and Engineering process that enable Capital Delivery
• Significant experience in working with all project management disciplines (time; cost; quality)
• Experience working within NEC or similar contract frameworks
• Strong understanding of commercial risk, cost and value optimisation
• Experience in regulated utility / infrastructure environment
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge decisions
• Experience operating at PM / Senior Manager level or equivalent
• Strong commercial and financial awareness
• Advanced schedule development and management
• Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis
• Programme and portfolio scheduling
• Resource and capacity planning

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Up to 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service
• Flexible working
• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing Date: 13th November 2026