Construction Planner

CR Civil Engineering; Loughborough; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/allowance

Pension

25 days annual leave

Discretional annual bonus

Job summary

CR Civil Engineering in Loughborough, UK, seeks an experienced Construction Planner to create, maintain, and govern robust programmes supporting highways, water, and rail projects across the Midlands. The role collaborates with site, commercial, and design teams to ensure programmes are realistic and used as live management tools throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities include NEC3/4 compliant planning, tender and preconstruction programming, and timely progress updates.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a construction planning role within civil engineering or infrastructure contractor.
• Strong experience producing and managing programmes for highways, water, and rail projects.
• Practical experience developing NEC3/4 compliant programmes, aligned to clauses and contractual requirements.
• Experience supporting compensation events, delay analysis, and change management under NEC contracts.
• Experience producing tender and preconstruction programmes.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, methodology, and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• Produce, manage, and update detailed construction programmes for live projects using recognised planning software (MS Project and Primavera P6).
• Develop and maintain NEC3/4 compliant programmes aligned with contract clauses and compensation event requirements.
• Capture progress, logic changes and programme impacts with site teams.
• Provide planning input to commercial teams to support early warnings, compensation events and change control.
• Produce tender and outline programmes for pre-construction teams across highways, water, and rail schemes.
• Attend meetings and clearly communicate programme risks, constraints, and mitigation measures.

Skills

Construction planning

NEC3/4 contracts

MS Project

Primavera P6

Delay analysis

Stakeholder communication

Tender & preconstruction

Education

Relevant construction/engineering/planning qualification

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Job description

The Vacancy

Loughborough, UK.

The Role

The Construction Planner is responsible for producing, maintaining, and managing robust construction programmes to support the successful delivery of our project across a variety of sectors including highways, water, and rail projects.

CR Civil Engineering part of the RSK Group are a family run business, based in the Midlands, operating throughout England and Wales. We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Construction Planner to join our team in Loughborough, UK.

Working closely with operational, commercial, and project teams, the Planner will ensure programmes are realistic, clearly communicated, and used as effective management tools throughout the project lifecycle, including preconstruction, delivery and handover.

Main Tasks/Responsibilities

Project Planning & Programme Management

• Produce, manage, and update detailed construction programmes for live projects using recognised planning software. Including MS Project and Primavera P6
• Develop and maintain NEC3&4 compliant programmes, ensuring alignment with relevant contract clauses and compensation event requirements.
• Work with site teams to capture progress, logic changes, and programme impacts in a timely and accurate manner.

NEC Contract Support

• Support project teams with programme submissions, updates, and assessments in line with NEC3&4 contract requirements.
• Assist with the identification, assessment, and demonstration of delay and change events through robust programme logic and records.
• Provide planning input to commercial teams to support early warnings, compensation events, and change control.

Preconstruction & Tender Support

• Produce tender and outline programmes for the pre-construction team across highways, water, and rail schemes.
• Work with estimators and bid teams to ensure programmes are aligned with construction methodology, resources, and risk allowances.
• Support programme reviews and clarifications during tender submissions.

Stakeholder & Team Collaboration

• Work closely with site, project, commercial, and design teams to ensure programmes reflect actual construction methodology and constraints.
• Attend project meetings, progress reviews, and planning workshops as required.
• Clearly communicate programme risks, constraints, and mitigation measures to the wider team.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Provide regular programme reports, progress updates, and look-ahead schedules to project teams and management.
• Support continuous improvement in planning processes, standards, and programme quality across the business.
• Promote the use of programmes as live management tools rather than reporting documents.

Qualifications

Mandatory

• Relevant construction, engineering, or planning qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC3&4 contracts and programme requirements.

Desirable

• Professional membership or progress towards membership of a relevant body (e.g. planning or engineering discipline).
• Formal training in recognised planning software.

Experience, Skills And Knowledge

Mandatory

• Proven experience in a construction planning role within a civil engineering or infrastructure contractor.
• Strong experience producing and managing programmes for highways, water, and/or rail projects.
• Practical experience developing NEC3&4 compliant programmes, aligned to relevant clauses and contractual requirements.
• Experience supporting compensation events, delay analysis, and change management under NEC contracts.
• Experience producing tender and preconstruction programmes.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, methodology, and resource planning.
• Ability to work closely with site teams and reflect real-world delivery constraints in programmes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify programme risk, delay, and mitigation options.
• Confident communicator able to explain programme logic, risks, and impacts to non-planning stakeholders.
• Proficient in industry-standard planning software, including MS Project and P6

Desirable

• Experience working on framework-based or repeat programme environments.
• Knowledge of possession planning, access constraints, or interface management relevant to rail projects.
• Experience contributing to programme standards or planning best practice within a business.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary Commensurate on experience.
• Company Car/Allowance
• 42.5 hours / week (Mon - Fri)
• Pension
• 25 days annual leave (Ex BH)
• Discretional annual bonus

The RSK Group are an equal opportunity employer

About Us

Our company's modest beginning is rooted in a simple but ambitious aim: to create a positive working environment in which our workers thrive, and our services excel. After 23 years, we have grown from a small team of three to a company known for its safe and professional manner, while achieving the highest standards for our clients. We are ambitious and continue to expand, owing to our company vision and ethos. We have permanent locations throughout the Midlands, South Yorkshire and South Wales, including our extensive range of resources and assets to support our nationwide schemes. Our highly skilled workforce and wide range of plant and machinery ensure self-dependency and efficiency.

CR Civil Engineering is always investing in training, technology and machinery to refine its extensive civil engineering services, including civil, structural and geotechnical engineering and contracting, structural maintenance and repair and hard and soft landscaping, provided to the highways, water, rail and other sectors throughout the UK.

CR Civil Engineering is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.

If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?