Hybrid Senior Planner: Construction Scheduling & Controls

Cooper Moss Rutland LLP; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Cooper Moss Rutland LLP is seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join our award-winning team in Reading on a hybrid, full-time basis. You will develop and maintain robust construction schedules, align estimates with project scope, and work with cost, risk and procurement teams to ensure coherent plans across UK projects.

The role requires DV/SC clearance, solid scheduling expertise (Primavera P6), and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Holding valid DV Clearance OR SC clearance and willing to go through DV.
• Experience in a construction or infrastructure environment.
• Solid scheduling expertise, including Primavera P6.
• Previous experience operating at Senior Planner level or planning professional with schedule ownership.
• Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Understanding of schedule hierarchy, integration, governance and change control.
• Familiarity with NEC or FIDIC contracts.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to support planning discussions with internal teams, clients, suppliers and key stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust, realistic and defensible construction schedules.
• Develop schedule estimates for construction works, ensuring alignment to project scope and delivery strategy.
• Define the Basis of Estimate for the construction schedule scope with key assumptions.
• Support planning leadership across the programme ensuring schedule quality and governance.
• Work with Cost and Risk Management teams to align estimates and schedule impacts.
• Collaborate with the Risk team to support the QSRA process.
• Identify and manage internal/external interfaces including procurement and milestones.
• Engage stakeholders to secure buy-in to the Programme’s construction schedule.
• Review supplier and contractor schedules, challenge logic and deliverability.
• Validate schedule estimates using benchmark data, design information and BIM.

Skills

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Presentation skills

DV/SC clearance

Education

Degree or equivalent in construction/engineering/project management

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

MS Office

Job description

Cooper Moss Rutland LLP is seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join our award-winning team in Reading on a hybrid, full-time basis. You will develop and maintain robust construction schedules, align estimates with project scope, and work with cost, risk and procurement teams to ensure coherent plans across UK projects.

The role requires DV/SC clearance, solid scheduling expertise (Primavera P6), and strong communication skills.