Project Planner

ARCA; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a Planner to develop and maintain project schedules for complex simulator programs. The role involves coordinating across multiple disciplines, providing updates to managers, and ensuring project timelines are met. Ideal candidates will have experience in project planning within engineering environments, with skills in tools like MS Project and Primavera. Join a dynamic team that offers opportunities for growth and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in project planning or scheduling within engineering or technical environments.
• Strong understanding of dependencies, critical paths, and schedule control.
• Confident communicator able to work closely with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules.
• Coordinate dependencies across disciplines and provide updates to managers.
• Track milestones and highlight risks early.

Skills

Project planning

Schedule control

Communication

Detail-oriented

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Job description

Planner

Location : Bristol (Long Ashton) - Onsite

Salary : Competitive + Benefits

Overview

ARCA Resourcing is supporting a world-leading engineering organisation specialising in advanced motion simulator technology in the search for a Planner.

This role sits at the heart of project delivery, ensuring complex simulator programmes are accurately scheduled, tracked, and coordinated across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and integration teams.

The Role

As a Planner, you’ll develop and maintain detailed project schedules, coordinate dependencies across disciplines, and provide accurate progress updates to Project Managers and Technical Leads. You’ll help ensure projects stay on track and support both internal and customer-facing reviews.

Key responsibilities include :

• Building and maintaining multi-phase project schedules across design, procurement, assembly, integration, and testing
• Updating plans with progress data and forecasting schedule impacts
• Tracking milestones and highlighting risks or deviations early
• Leading regular schedule reviews and producing progress reports / dashboards
• Coordinating with technical teams to verify task status
• Supporting bid schedules and baseline updates for contract changes
• Ensuring schedule data integrity and contributing to planning process improvements

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in project planning or scheduling within engineering or technical environments
• Strong understanding of dependencies, critical paths, and schedule control
• Confident communicator able to work closely with multidisciplinary teams
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams

Desirable :

Experience with planning tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera) and previous work in engineering / manufacturing sectors.

What You Can Expect

• Involvement in innovative, high-performance simulator programmes
• Collaboration with expert engineering teams across multiple disciplines
• The chance to influence planning processes and support continuous improvement
• A dynamic and supportive environment with strong opportunities for growth

If you’re a motivated planner who enjoys bringing structure and clarity to complex engineering programmes, we’d love to hear from you.