Planning Director, Energy & Infrastructure (Remote/Hybrid)

H&MV Engineering; Manchester; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

H&MV Engineering is seeking a UK Planning Director to lead a regional planning team, drive the Group Planning Strategy, and ensure governance across projects. This remote role includes UK travel to our offices and collaboration with regional leads to deliver programmes on time and within contract.

You will mentor planners, drive continuous improvement, and ensure effective change control and risk management across the region.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading planning or project controls teams within construction, engineering, energy, or infrastructure sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor planners across multiple projects.
• Experience driving planning standards, governance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of planning, scheduling, forecasting, programme controls, and reporting.
• Knowledge of construction contracts, change management, and extension of time processes.
• Commercial awareness with the ability to manage programme risk and support key business decisions.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of the Group Planning Strategy across the region, aligning planning activities with business objectives.
• Set planning priorities based on project performance, risk, and resource requirements.
• Manage planning resources, team structure, recruitment, and succession planning across the region.
• Provide oversight of programme performance, risk management, change control, and recovery planning.
• Ensure consistent application of planning standards, governance, controls, and reporting processes.
• Support contractual processes through robust programme management, change control, and delay analysis.
• Lead, mentor, and develop planning teams to drive performance, capability, and continuous improvement.
• Act as the regional planning lead, supporting project delivery, bids, and strategic business initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Communication

Project management

Risk management

Scheduling

Forecasting

Programme controls

Contract knowledge

Job description

H&MV Engineering is seeking a UK Planning Director to lead a regional planning team, drive the Group Planning Strategy, and ensure governance across projects. This remote role includes UK travel to our offices and collaboration with regional leads to deliver programmes on time and within contract.

You will mentor planners, drive continuous improvement, and ensure effective change control and risk management across the region.