Planning Manager

px fairport; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Eye test & glasses

Cinema tickets & gym discount

Long service awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible benefits

Onsite parking

Job summary

pxFairport seeks a Planning Manager to drive project scheduling across our bulk material handling projects from Sunderland. You will partner with Project Managers to define WBS, resource loading and baselined schedules, balancing milestones and risks.

You’ll lead cross-functional planning sessions, challenge bottlenecks, and deliver robust reports with s-curves and progress updates to SMT, ensuring on-time delivery and optimal resource use on a dynamic portfolio.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Planner in a construction environment.
• Ability to produce robust project schedules and resource loading.
• Familiarity with P6, MS Project, and MS Office Suite.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate planning sessions with Project Managers to define deliverables and baselined schedules.
• Ensure resource loading and level schedules using a shared pool across projects.
• Identify bottlenecks and risks; update SMT on progress and deviations.

Skills

Planner

Construction

Time management

Teamwork

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

MS Office

Job description

pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.

The Opportunity

We are now recruiting for a Planning Manager.

The Planning Manager works closely with the Project Manager to ensure that all project deliverables are identified and planned accordingly in order to deliver the project scope in a controlled manner, meeting any contractually agreed milestone dates. They are a key figure within the business; helping to drive progress within the project teams but also ensuring the business-wide load plan is updated regularly to enable accurate reporting on resource requirements against our annual business plan targets.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and lead planning sessions/workshops with Project Managers to understand key project deliverables, agree the WBS and any required logic links to produce a robust, base-lined project schedule.
• Work with cross-functional Department Managers and Stakeholders to understand norms & resource assignments for each activity.
• Using a shared resource pool across the full project portfolio, ensure that schedules are resource-loaded and projects are levelled accordingly.
• Work with Project Managers, Project Engineers and Department Managers to resolve any bottlenecks and risk to successful project milestones (both client driven and internal finance targets).
• Update and report on the business-wide load plan to ensure the Senior Management Team (SMT) are aware of any periods of over/under utilisation of resource.
• Facilitate weekly/monthly schedule reviews to ensure project progress is updated accurately and any slippage/risks are challenged/reported accordingly.
• Create reports which reflect overall project health, including s-curves and summarising slippage from baseline. Recommendations on corrective actions should also be included.
• More responsibilities can be found in the Role Profile.
• Proven experience as a Planner in a construction environment.
• Demonstrated experience in the ability to determine corrective actions or recommendations based on facts and figures, critically evaluating information and data from various sources.
• Advanced skills in P6, working knowledge of L4-L5 task level planning in Microsoft Project, MS Office Suite
• Able to challenge and highlight where logic may not be correct or accurate.
• Experience of working on business-wide, resource-based load plans, not only project specific updates.
• Reliable and with the ability to work autonomously, as well as part of a team.
• Strong time management skills, quick thinking, and the ability to meet project deadlines as necessary.

What you will receive from us:

Contribution towards eye test and glasses

Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount

Long Service Awards

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible Benefits Package

Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.