Planner

Remote Worker LTD.; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HITACHI ENERGY UK LIMITED is seeking an experienced Planner to join the Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service team in Birmingham, UK. The role focuses on developing and maintaining project schedules, coordinating across engineering, supply chain, construction, and commissioning, and ensuring milestones are met.

You will monitor progress, manage critical paths, and provide regular reports to project leadership. Travel to Birmingham office and sites is required as needed.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience as a Planner in EPC projects (T&D preferred).
• Strong planning and scheduling capabilities with mature methods/tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze project requirements with the team to define detailed schedules.
• Monitor progress and critical paths, alerting PMs to deviations and optimization opportunities.
• Issue progress reports and updates in project control systems and customer portals.
• Establish baseline plans for cost and resource planning; manage WBS and procurement timing.
• Collaborate with engineering, SCM, construction, commissioning, and clients to quantify scope changes.
• Integrate material requirements with schedule and update SCM to optimize lead times.
• Participate in project reviews and communicate progress and control issues to management.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Communication

Team coordination

Tools

Oracle Primavera P6

Job description

Location

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Job ID

R0141715

Date Posted

2026-10-14

Company Name

HITACHI ENERGY UK LIMITED

Profession (Job Category)

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule

Full time

Remote

Yes

Job Description

At Grid & Power Quality Solutions and Service business at Hitachi Energy in Europe (HBUEU), Inclusion drives our culture of innovation and collaboration. Our leading technology and strong market position enable us to achieve growth targets in the energy transition across current and growing market segments such as hydrogen, data centers and e-mobility.

The opportunity

• Analyses project requirements with the project team, checking that all essential work activities have been identified in sufficient detail to serve as a basis for developing realistic project schedules.
• Monitoring project progress and regularly analyse project critical paths to ensure all critical path activities and project milestones are progressed according to the plan, ensuring you communicate effectively to Project Managers any deviations or scheduling issues, and provides input for optimizing resources.
• Issuing progress reports, program updates and productivity data on a regular basis and as requested by customers and stakeholders. Use customer reporting portals such as Fastdraft where appropriate.
• Establishes a baseline plan for cost performance measurement. Working with the project team to define the necessary resources for project completion, evaluating the work breakdown structure
• Working closely with engineering, supply chain, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, client, and contractors to identify potential changes in scope and quantify the impact of each change in a timely fashion.
• Integrating material resource requirements with project schedule and defines procurement activities and order lead times. Regularly communicates with Supply Chain Management (SCM) team and updates schedules to ensure procurement activities take place in a timely way and lead times are optimized to meet schedule targets.
• Participates in project reviews. Composes reports and updates all required project data in Project Control systems for Management Information and Project Analysis. Communicates project progress and control issues to project management team and offers solutions.
• Effectively communicates appropriate information to customers and other stakeholders in a timely manner in order to achieve the desired understanding.

Your background

• Proven 5 years’ experience as a Planner within similar industry (preferably for EPC projects in T&D)
• Strong experience in project planning and scheduling, including in mature scheduling methods and tools

• Operational skills, robust previous experience as part of project teams
• Able to advise and lead the project team with respect to the programme progress
• Ability to communicate effectively to all areas of the business
• Expert Knowledge of Oracle Primavera P6
• Self-motivated
• Travel when required to Birmingham office and site.

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Background Screening and Security Checks

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