Project Planner

Arcadis; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Project Planner to support a major infrastructure programme from the client’s site in Dover. This hands-on role builds and maintains detailed project schedules, challenges progress, and provides insight to keep complex projects on track.

Regular client-site attendance in Dover is required (2 days per week). You will develop programmes, monitor baselines, identify variances and risks, and support progress reporting and forecasting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project planning experience in infrastructure, engineering or construction.
• Ability to develop, maintain and update integrated project schedules.
• Strong understanding of project controls, EV, schedule reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project programmes, baseline plans and work breakdown structures.
• Manage schedules through the project lifecycle and monitor baselines.
• Identify schedule variances, risks and delays and support recovery plans.
• Analyse programme performance and provide progress reporting and forecasting.
• Support earned value and wider project controls reporting.
• Review contractor programmes and schedule performance.
• Collaborate with client, project managers, commercial teams and delivery disciplines to reflect plans.

Skills

Primavera P6

Project scheduling

Earned value management

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We’re looking for an experienced Project Planner to join Arcadis and support the delivery of a major infrastructure programme from our client’s site in Dover.

This is a hands‑on planning role for someone who can build and maintain robust project schedules, challenge progress and provide the insight needed to keep complex projects on track. The role requires regular client‑site attendance in Dover [2 days per week].

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and maintain detailed project programmes, baseline plans and work breakdown structures.
• Manage schedules throughout the project lifecycle, monitoring progress against agreed baselines.
• Identify schedule variances, risks and potential delays, supporting the development of recovery and mitigation plans.
• Analyse programme performance and provide clear, accurate progress reporting and forecasting.
• Support earned value and wider project controls reporting.
• Review and challenge contractor programmes, assumptions and schedule performance.
• Work closely with the client, project managers, commercial teams and other delivery disciplines to ensure plans accurately reflect project delivery.
• Help improve planning processes, reporting and the use of planning and digital tools.

What we’re looking for

You’ll bring strong project planning and scheduling experience within infrastructure, engineering or construction, ideally gained on complex programmes.

You’ll also have:

• Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6 and/or equivalent planning software.
• Experience developing, maintaining and updating integrated project schedules.
• A good understanding of project controls, earned value management (EVM), schedule performance and progress reporting.
• The ability to interrogate programmes, identify risks and challenge delivery assumptions.
• Strong stakeholder and client‑facing communication skills.
• Experience working within complex contracting and multidisciplinary delivery environments.
• The ability to work regularly from the client site in Dover [2 days per week].

Experience within rail, highways, aviation, ports or other major infrastructure environments would be advantageous, as would membership of a relevant professional body.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.