Primavera P6 Planner — On‑Site, 2 Days/Week, Defence

PACE Global; Scotland; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work pattern

Job summary

PACE Global in Scotland is recruiting an experienced Primavera P6 Planner for a major defence programme, working with a leading engineering consultancy on a secondment basis. This hands‑on role requires genuine ownership of the programme in a highly governed environment.

You will build and maintain integrated schedules, ensure baselines and data discipline, and challenge updates with multidisciplinary stakeholders while supporting governance and reporting across the project.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Primavera P6 experience on defence projects.
• Solid grounding in WBS, logic, critical path, baselines and forecasting.
• Owns schedules, not just reporting.
• Ability to challenge inputs with multidisciplinary teams.
• Security clearance or ability to meet vetting requirements.
• Defence, naval, nuclear or aerospace programme experience.
• Consultancy or secondment background.
• Exposure to schedule assurance, earned value, NEC, or risk and change integration.

Responsibilities

• Building, maintaining and updating integrated schedules in Primavera P6
• Assuring activity logic, dependencies, milestones, calendars and baselines
• Running regular progress cycles and maintaining proper data-date discipline
• Analysing critical path, float, variance, slippage and emerging schedule risk
• Working with project managers, engineers and commercial teams to gather and challenge updates
• Assessing the schedule impact of change and supporting recovery and reforecasting
• Producing clear look‑aheads, schedule narratives and decision‑ready reporting
• Supporting planning governance and schedule quality across the programme

Skills

Primavera P6

WBS

Forecasting

Critical Path

Stakeholder Management

Security Clearance

Defence Experience

Consultancy Background

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

PACE Global in Scotland is recruiting an experienced Primavera P6 Planner for a major defence programme, working with a leading engineering consultancy on a secondment basis. This hands‑on role requires genuine ownership of the programme in a highly governed environment.

You will build and maintain integrated schedules, ensure baselines and data discipline, and challenge updates with multidisciplinary stakeholders while supporting governance and reporting across the project.