Junior or Project Planner

Arcadis; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable design and consultancy is seeking a Junior/Project Planner in Birmingham. This role involves supporting infrastructure project planning, developing schedules, and collaborating with teams to ensure timely project delivery. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience and HNC/HND qualifications.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in project planning within the infrastructure sector.
• Proficiency in planning software and tools.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of baseline plans for assigned projects.
• Monitor progress and report on earned value metrics.
• Assist in generating planning estimates and execution strategies.

Skills

Excellent organizational skills

Strong written communication

Team collaboration

Commercial awareness

Education

HNC/HND or equivalent technical experience

Tools

Planning software

Job description

Arcadis Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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Talent Acquisition Consultant @ Arcadis | Recruitment, Talent Acquisition

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As a Junior/ Project Planner, you will play a vital role in supporting the successful planning and delivery of infrastructure projects. Working closely with project teams, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of project schedules, monitor progress, and ensure all planning activities align with project objectives.

In this role, you will assist in producing accurate planning estimates and execution strategies to optimize solutions while preventing errors. You will support tendering and estimating activities, ensuring all relevant planning considerations are incorporated. Additionally, you will track project performance against baseline plans, report on progress metrics, and proactively identify any issues that could impact project delivery. Your collaboration with stakeholders will help ensure that planning activities meet client requirements and contribute to delivering projects on time and within budget.

Role accountabilities:

• Support the development of baseline plans for assigned projects.
• Monitor progress and report on earned value metrics to support forecasting and corrective actions.
• Assist in generating planning estimates and execution strategies to optimize project delivery.
• Contribute to planning input for estimating and tendering activities.
• Identify and raise progress issues that could impact successful delivery, enabling timely recovery actions.
• Work collaboratively with project teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment with goals and client expectations.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Relevant experience in project planning, ideally within the infrastructure sector.
• A minimum of HNC/HND or equivalent technical experience.
• Proficiency in planning software and tools.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage your own workload effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Commercial awareness and a basic understanding of contracting environments.
  
  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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