Project Planner

Mott MacDonald; London Borough of Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Enhanced holiday allowance

Employee ownership

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking a P6 Project Planner to develop and maintain integrated schedules for rail and major infrastructure projects. You will collaborate with project managers, engineers, and commercial teams to ensure schedules meet contractual and governance requirements.

You will produce look-ahead programmes, monitor progress, and provide forecasts and KPI reports. The role offers hybrid working across UK sites and opportunities to contribute to international projects.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in project planning and scheduling for major capital projects.
• In-depth knowledge of project lifecycles, critical-path analysis and change control.
• Proven ability to integrate schedules from multiple disciplines and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and monitor integrated project schedules using Primavera P6.
• Produce look-ahead schedules, variance analyses, forecasts and KPI dashboards.
• Support earned value management and schedule risk assessment as needed.
• Facilitate planning meetings and present schedule updates to stakeholders.

Skills

Primavera P6 scheduling

Schedule integration across multiple

Look-ahead programmes

Forecasting & KPI reporting

Data analysis & Excel

Stakeholder management

Planning meetings facilitation

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Engineering / Construction Management degree

APM PMQ or equivalent

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

Microsoft Project

SAP

Job description

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Croydon, GB London, GB Leeds, GB Manchester, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Transport

Discipline: Project programme and commercial management

Job Ref: 17517

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview of the role

As a P6 Project Planner, you will develop, maintain and monitor integrated project schedules using Oracle Primavera P6. You will support the successful delivery of rail and other major infrastructure projects by providing accurate planning, progress measurement, forecasting and reporting throughout the project lifecycle.

Working closely with project managers, engineers, commercial teams, contractors and clients, you will develop work breakdown structures, activities, milestones, logic links and baselines; integrate inputs from multiple disciplines and suppliers; and ensure programmes meet contractual, governance and planning requirements. You will gather and validate progress information, monitor performance against baseline, identify critical-path issues, risks and opportunities, and recommend recovery or mitigation actions.

You will produce look-ahead programmes, schedule variance analysis, forecasts, dashboards and KPI reports, and assess the programme impact of changes and variations. Where applicable, you will support earned value management, schedule risk assessment and alignment between schedule, cost and risk information. You will also facilitate planning and coordination meetings, present schedule updates and recovery plans, and contribute to project reviews and client audits.

You will join a collaborative project management and controls team supporting multidisciplinary rail projects, from renewal schemes to complex design-and-build programmes and rolling stock initiatives. The role offers the opportunity to broaden your project-controls experience, contribute to planning standards and best practice, and develop your career on major infrastructure programmes in the UK and internationally.

• Demonstrable experience in project planning and scheduling within major capital projects, infrastructure, construction management, engineering, energy, rail, utilities or a related sector
• Advanced proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6, including the development and maintenance of work breakdown structures, logic-linked activities, milestones, constraints and baselines
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle delivery, critical-path analysis, progress measurement, forecasting, schedule optimisation and change control
• Ability to integrate schedules across multiple disciplines, contractors and suppliers and to assess schedule impacts arising from changes and variations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with close attention to detail, data quality and the reliability of forecasts
• Experience producing clear planning reports, look-ahead programmes, schedule variance analysis, dashboards and KPI information
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills and the ability to communicate schedule information clearly through reports and presentations
• Effective communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to facilitate planning meetings and constructively challenge assumptions
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, manage competing priorities and meet reporting deadlines
• Degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, construction management, project management, business or a related discipline
• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent professional qualification or accreditation
• Experience of resource - or cost-loaded scheduling, earned value management and schedule risk assessment
• Experience of resource- or cost-loaded scheduling, earned value management and schedule risk assessment
• Familiarity with Power BI, Microsoft Project, SAP or other project-controls tools

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

AI Usage

At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at [e-mail] and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.