Project Planner

ARCA; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering organisation in the UK is seeking a Planner / Scheduler to join their team in Bristol. This role is integral to project delivery, ensuring complex simulator programs are accurately scheduled and tracked across various teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in project planning, strong communication skills, and a proactive approach to managing multiple schedules. In return, the company offers a dynamic environment and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in project planning or scheduling within engineering or technical environments.
• Ability to work closely with multidisciplinary teams.
• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain detailed project schedules and coordinate dependencies.
• Provide accurate progress updates to Project Managers.
• Track milestones and highlight risks early.

Skills

Project planning experience

Strong understanding of dependencies

Confident communication

Detail-oriented

Tools

MS Project

Primavera

Job description

Planner / Scheduler

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/ Scheduler .

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/ Scheduler, 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.