Major Projects PMO Senior Planner - Hybrid & Primavera P6

Southern Water; England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Generous pension

Life assurance

Health benefits

Volunteer days

28 days annual holiday

Career development support

Job summary

Southern Water is seeking a Senior Planner to shape the delivery of major infrastructure projects in the Major Projects PMO. You will develop and manage fully logic-linked schedules in Primavera P6, providing accurate data, early warnings, and scenario modelling to keep projects on track.

Lead schedule governance, coordinate with external partners, and maintain baselines under PMO governance to drive value for communities.

Qualifications

• Expert user of Primavera P6 with cost and resource loading.
• Experience linking schedules and managing baselines.
• Ability to communicate schedule risks and mitigations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and manage fully logic-linked project schedules in Primavera P6.
• Communicate critical path updates and schedule slippage early warnings.
• Produce progress updates, lookahead schedules, S-Curves, SPI metrics.
• Conduct scenario planning to support risk mitigation strategies.
• Review schedules from external partners and ensure governance compliance.

Skills

Primavera P6

Critical path analysis

What-if scenario planning

Schedule governance

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Southern Water is seeking a Senior Planner to shape the delivery of major infrastructure projects in the Major Projects PMO. You will develop and manage fully logic-linked schedules in Primavera P6, providing accurate data, early warnings, and scenario modelling to keep projects on track.

Lead schedule governance, coordinate with external partners, and maintain baselines under PMO governance to drive value for communities.