Project Planner

Pinnacle Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A key player in the Rail sector is seeking a Project Planner to oversee Civil Rail projects, ensuring efficient planning and execution. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 3 years of experience in Civil Rail Projects. Responsibilities include creating complex schedules, managing stakeholder communications, and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. Experience with planning tools like Primavera (P6) is essential. This position is based in Greater London, offering a competitive salary of £45,000 to £60,000 plus a package.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Civil Rail Projects with a Sub/Main Contractor.
• HND/Degree level education in a relevant discipline is essential.
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement planning and programmes for rail projects.
• Produce detailed trackers for weekly/monthly progress reports.
• Represent the business at client meetings and site meetings.

Skills

Creating complex schedules

Troubleshooting planning issues

Stakeholder management

Education

HND/Degree in Business/Finance/Engineering/Project Management

Tools

Primavera (P6)

MS Project

Job description

Project Planner – Civil Rail Projects DLR, LUL, Network Rail £5-£25m – £45-£60k + Package

Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 + Package

Location: South Ruislip and Slough

Regions: London, South East

We’re looking for skilled, expert and motivated people who’ll help us meet national needs in Civil Rail. Their future success depends on having the very best team of people who will help us to meet our customers’ complex challenges by providing our solutions faster, with more innovation and at less cost.

Projects will be a mixture of London Underground, DLR and Network Rail Projects between £5m-£25m with some smaller ones from around £1m.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Build, optimise and implement appropriate planning and programmes (including resources, outages, consents and way leaves)
• When necessary produce detailed trackers to be used to collect and report progress made on a weekly/monthly basis
• Develop a deep understanding of contracts such as NEC and its requirements
• Work closely with the project team to maximise the potential of each project, attend site meetings when necessary to discuss progress and update the project plan together with reporting back on any knock‑on effects
• Represent the business at client meetings
• Work with the Planning Manager to ensure that the planning function interfaces effectively with the other departments
• Support programme integration, governance, formats, plan optimisation, and planning best practices
• Gather benchmarking information to aid the Value For Money (VFM) assessment on each project
• Monitor and control programme compliance in respect of our contractual obligations

Qualifications:

• HND/Degree level education in a Business/Finance/Engineering/Project Management discipline or equivalent – Essential
• PTS – Desirable
• CSCS Card – Desirable
• 3 years+ Experience including Civil Rail Projects with a Sub/Main Contractor – Essential
• Earned Value Foundation (APMG)
• APM Introductory Certificate
• Ideally APMP or working towards APMP

Knowledge / Skills / Behaviours

• Ideally have more than 3 years’ experience of creating complex schedules
• Identifying and maintaining dependencies within programme/project schedules
• Integration of master schedule to programme/project schedules
• Rollup of cross‑project resources to consolidated resource plans
• Troubleshooting of problems resulting from schedule content or planning tool limitations
• Ideally have demonstrable experience of using Earned Value Management Systems
• Advanced Primavera (P6) skills and/or have demonstrable skills in the use of other planning tools such as MS Project
• Presentation, facilitation, communication and influencing skills
• Motivated, well organised and methodical
• Stakeholder management experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills