PLN60007 - Electrical Lead Planner

EDF; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF is seeking an Electrical Lead Planner in the UK to develop and maintain Level 5 electrical construction schedules for a major project. You will produce four-week lookahead plans, align work with longer milestones, and monitor progress to support reporting and decision-making.

The role requires strong planning expertise, BPSS eligibility, and the ability to work across engineering, construction, quality and commissioning teams within a nuclear environment.

Qualifications

• Requires strong planning methodologies and project controls principles.
• BPSS security clearance eligibility is required.
• Experience in large construction or infrastructure projects preferred.
• Proficiency with planning and scheduling tools in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed Level 5 electrical construction schedules.
• Produce and update four-week lookahead plans for short-term delivery.
• Align electrical work with 16-week lookahead and milestones.
• Monitor progress and measure installed quantities against plan.
• Provide schedule updates to support reporting and decision-making.
• Integrate engineering, material, access, resources, quality and commissioning into schedules.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, quality and commissioning teams.
• Identify scheduling risks and support mitigation for predictable delivery.
• Produce planned vs actual productivity and quantity tracking reports.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling software

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Education

HNC in Engineering or equivalent

Job description

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Job Category: Project Management / Controls

Employing Company: Balfour Beatty

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Electrical Lead Planner
Balfour Beatty
HPC

Permanent

As an Electrical Construction Planner, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed construction schedules that support the safe and efficient delivery of electrical installation activities across the project.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining detailed Level 5 electrical construction schedules.
• Producing and updating four-week lookahead plans to support short-term delivery objectives.
• Aligning electrical work schedules with the wider 16-week project lookahead and programme milestones.
• Monitoring progress and measuring installed quantities against planned outputs.
• Providing accurate and evidence-based schedule updates to support project reporting and decision-making.
• Integrating engineering, material availability, access requirements, resource planning, quality requirements and commissioning activities into construction schedules.
• Working closely with construction and delivery teams to confirm activity readiness and identify potential constraints.
• Supporting the identification and mitigation of scheduling risks to ensure predictable project delivery.
• Producing planned versus actual productivity reports and quantity tracking information.

Qualifications:

• HNC (or equivalent) in an Engineering discipline.
• Ability to obtain and maintain BPSS Security Clearance.
• Strong understanding of construction planning methodologies and project controls principles.
• Proficiency in planning and scheduling tools within complex construction environments

Experience:

• Planning experience within construction or major infrastructure projects.
• Previous experience developing and maintaining detailed construction schedules.
• Experience tracking progress, productivity and installed quantities against programme targets.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, workface planning and project delivery processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with engineering, construction, quality and commissioning teams.
• Experience within the nuclear sector or other highly regulated industries would be advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret project data and communicate schedule performance effectively

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.