Lead Planner Electrical

NG Bailey MEH Alliance; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary uplift and away‑upl

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension with up to 8% employer contrib

Private healthcare

Discounts

Personal development programme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

NG Bailey is recruiting for an Electrical Lead Planner to head the Electrical Construction Planning team on the Hinkley Point C project in Bridgwater. You will coordinate planning across the electrical scope, ensuring lookaheads align with milestones and provide visibility of readiness and risks for safe delivery.

The role requires extensive MEP planning experience, site leadership, and strong proficiency with Primavera/Asta Powerproject.

Qualifications

• Extensive planning experience on large MEP projects, preferably regulated environments or nuclear sites.
• Experience leading a planning function and planning personnel.
• Dedicated site experience in a planning role.
• Extensive knowledge of Primavera/Asta Powerproject.
• Ability to obtain BPSS clearance to attend site.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the Electrical Construction Planners, ensuring planning activities meet contractual obligations and compliance.
• Facilitate integrated planning meetings with stakeholders to develop and maintain electrical construction schedules.
• Coordinate electrical four-week lookaheads and contribute to the 16-week lookahead.
• Ensure activities entering the four-week window are mature and ready for construction.
• Produce clear progress reports for stakeholders and monitor against the project plan.
• Perform time/risk analysis with discipline leads and report findings.
• Manage interfaces with mechanical, HVAC, civil and commissioning activities.
• Demonstrate health and safety leadership across all activities.
• Collaborate with project personnel and client to produce a baseline programme and contract reviews.
• Support operational teams to assess targets and agree corrective actions.

Skills

Planning leadership

Large MEP experience

Site-based planning

Primavera/Powerproject

BPSS clearance

Education

MEP engineering qualifications (HNC/HND)

Tools

Primavera

Asta Powerproject

Job description

Lead Planner (Electrical)

Permanent roles

Bridgwater - Hinkley Point C

Competitive salary, car or car allowance + uplifts and allowances for working away

NG Baileyare proud to be involved in theHinkley Point Cproject based inBridgwater, Somerset.This is the first in a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain providing zero-carbon electricity for around six million homes.NG Bailey, the UK's leading independent engineering and services business, are proud to be part of theMEH Alliance, ajoint venturetodeliver themechanical, electrical and HVAC installationfor the project.

As we progress on the project and increase in delivery we are looking to appoint an Electrical Lead Planner who will be accountable for leading the Electrical Construction Planning team and coordinating electrical planning across the assigned programme/delivery area.

This is an integral leadership role within the electrical team working to ensure lookaheads are achievable and aligned with the overall programme milestones, providing clear visibility of construction readiness, interfaces,constraintsand schedule risks to support safe,coordinatedand predictable delivery.

This will be a permanent staff position with NG Bailey and the applicants will need to predominantly work from the Hinkley Point C site in Bridgwater. We do offer generous uplifts and allowances for working away from home.

Responsibilities

Key deliverables in this role are:

• Lead and coordinate the Electrical Construction Planners, ensuring that all planning related activities are carried out in compliance with contractual obligations, internal processes and external legislation governing business operations
• Arrange and facilitate integrated planning meetings, engaging with all relevant stakeholders to develop, agree andmaintain theintegrated electrical construction schedules.
• Coordinate electrical four-week lookaheads and contribute to the overall 16-week lookahead.
• Confirm activities entering the four-week window are sufficiently mature and ready for construction
• Ensure that progress and productivity is effectively monitored against project plan, produce clear reports for all stakeholders.
• Perform time/risk analysis against programmes at regular intervals with the project/discipline leads.
• Manage interfaces with mechanical, HVAC, civil and commissioning activities.
• Demonstrate appropriate health and safety leadership to ensure the safety first and foremost message is visible and alive throughout all activities.
• Work closely with relevant project personnel and external customer in order to produce/ agree a contract baseline programme for the project.
• Ensure that planning outputs/reports are produced for contract reviews. Support the operational teams in order to ascertain whether project targets are being achieved and jointly establish and agree any corrective measures where necessary.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Considerable experience in a planning role on large MEP projects, preferably regulated environments, ideally nuclear sites.
• Relevant MEP engineering qualifications, HNC/HND in an electrical field preferred.
• Previous experience leading a planning function and planning personnel.
• Dedicated site experience working in a planning role
• Extensive Primavera/Asta Powerproject knowledge
• Ability to ascertain BPSS clearance to attend site

Benefits

• We are able to offer a competitive salary with generous uplift and allowances for working away from home where required.
• 25 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
• Pension with leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Private healthcare
• Discounts
• Personal development programme
• Flexible Benefits

Next Steps:

As a business, we're on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We'll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

NG Bailey on the Hinkley Point C Project:

We are working across both Hinkley Point C units to deliver the infrastructure that will power the station and its operations, creating 1,000 jobs including many specialist engineers. Works include the design and installation of circa 76,000 cables totalling over 3,000km in length; over 180km of cable containment support systems; fire and environmental sealing; design and installation of earthing systems, and specialist packages associated with data acquisition and plant control.

About Us:

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.