Consultant Project Planner

Russell Taylor Group

Stroud

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Excellent salary + benefits

Competitive day rate (contract)

Hybrid work environment

Excellent bonus potential (where-based

Job summary

Russell Taylor Group in Stroud is seeking an experienced Consultant Planner to join our hybrid team. You will support live projects, develop and maintain integrated master schedules, and work with Project Controls Managers to provide planning insights across complex infrastructure and regulated-sector projects.

This role offers permanent staff or contract positions with excellent salary and benefits, exposure to senior leadership, and a path to grow within project controls.

Qualifications

2-3+ years' experience within project delivery or a project controls environment.
Strong practical experience in project planning.
Proficiency in Primavera P6.
Understanding of commercial management and change control.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
HNC/HND in a relevant discipline, or demonstrable equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Support the planning function across live projects, working closely with Project Controls Managers, senior planners and wider project teams.
Develop and maintain integrated master project schedules.
Assist with WBS and schedule production throughout the project lifecycle.
Support the integration and assurance of schedules and outputs from other project functions.
Produce timely and accurate planning outputs for project, business and customer reporting.
Support Earned Value Management (EVM), resource analysis, schedule performance and milestone reporting.

Skills

Project planning

Communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

HNC/HND in a relevant discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Excel

PowerPoint

MS Word

Job description

Salary: Excellent salary + benefits or Competitive Day Rate

Vacancy Title: Consultant Project Planner Contract Type: Permanent Location: Stroud Industry: Project Controls Salary: Excellent salary + benefits or Competitive Day Rate Start Date: 2026-09-28 REF: J91988318 Contact Name: Tony Marsden Contact Email: tony.marsden@russell-taylor.co.uk Vacancy Published: 2 days ago

Project Planners

Stroud, Gloucestershire ( Hybrid )

Permanent staff or Contract positions

Excellent salary + benefits or Competitive Day Rate

The Opportunity

Are you an experienced Planner looking for the opportunity to work on high-profile, complex infrastructure and regulated-sector projects while developing your career within a specialist project controls consultancy? We're working with an established and growing project controls business that is looking to appoint a Consultant Planner to join its integrated project controls team.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a solid grounding in project delivery or project controls who wants to take on greater responsibility, broaden their experience and work closely with experienced project controls professionals and senior leadership.

You'll have the opportunity to work across varied client environments, supporting the development and management of integrated project schedules and providing the planning insight that helps project teams make better decisions.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Consultant Planner, you'll support the planning function across live projects, working closely with Project Controls Managers, senior planners and wider project teams.

Supporting the development and maintenance of integrated master project schedules.
Assisting with WBS and schedule production throughout the project lifecycle.
Supporting the integration and assurance of schedules and outputs from other project functions.
Producing timely and accurate planning outputs for project, business and customer reporting.
Supporting Earned Value Management (EVM), resource analysis, schedule performance and milestone reporting.
Working closely with other project controls disciplines to ensure information is properly integrated and aligned.
Supporting commercial management and change control activities.
Developing your planning capability through exposure to different projects, clients and working environments.
Building effective relationships with project stakeholders and contributing positively to the wider project team.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in hearing from Planners who have:

2-3+ years' experience within project delivery or a project controls environment.
Strong practical experience in project planning.
Proficiency in Primavera P6.
An understanding of commercial management and change control.
Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
A structured, analytical and problem-solving approach.
The ability to work independently while also contributing effectively within a team.
The flexibility to adapt to different client environments and working cultures.
An HNC/HND in a relevant discipline, or demonstrable equivalent experience.

Experience within nuclear, defence, rail or wider infrastructure would be particularly valuable, although candidates from other complex project environments will also be considered.

APM qualifications, Primavera P6 Foundation/Practitioner certification, mentoring experience or a military/Armed Forces background would be advantageous.

Why Apply?

This is more than simply another Planning role. You'll be joining a business where professional development, collaboration and technical excellence are genuinely valued.

You can expect:

For permanent staff role -