Project Planner - Substations

Morgan Philips Group SA; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global talent solutions company is seeking an experienced Project Planner to join their Transmission & Renewables team in the UK. This role involves managing project schedules, collaborating with delivery teams, and supporting bidding processes for major substation projects. Candidates should have experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and a strong background in managing resources. The position offers a hybrid working model and competitive benefits including a salary of £50,000 to £55,000.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

My Car Choice – EV/Hybrid car scheme

Car Allowance

Private health care

Qualifications

• Experience working on major infrastructure projects.
• Strong capability in managing construction schedules.
• Ability to lead a change agenda for business improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage resources and subcontractors effectively.
• Collaborate with bid teams to enhance project bids.
• Conduct risk, issue, and opportunity assessments.

Skills

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Earned value management

NEC contracts

Change management process

Job description

Project Planner - Substations - Southwest/South Wales

Travel required: lots of travel
Note: Must have the right ticket due to the substations at voltages up to and including 400kV

About the role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where you will be working

We’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation. This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

Want to come and be a part of it?

Location and hybrid working

Where will you be working? Are you ready to join a growing team of Planners, working on National Grid substation projects across the UK? This role is to be based in and around the Southwest/South Wales - Bristol a good central point. This hybrid role offers flexibility to work from home, with at least two days a week at your project sites, allowing you to collaborate and spend valuable time with your team. You’ll need to travel to sites and our offices, so a UK driving licence is needed for this role.

What you’ll do

Are you a skilled planner with a passion for creating and improving construction schedules? Your expertise will be vital to our success. We’re looking for someone who excels at managing resources and subcontractors and who enjoys being involved in every stage of the project, working closely with the site delivery team and attending client meetings, from initial planning to final handover. In this role, you will also collaborate with our bid team, offering your planning expertise to make our bids competitive and accurate. Your ability to collect benchmarking data for value assessments and manage risk, issue, and opportunity registers will be highly valued. If you are passionate about exploring new planning techniques and technologies and can lead a change agenda for business improvement, we’d love to have you on our team!

What you’ll bring

• Experience working with Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project
• Experience of earned value management, NEC contracts and change management process
• If you have worked in the energy sector, then that would be great; however, if you have experience working on any major infrastructure projects, we would love to hear from you!

What’s in it for you

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• My Car Choice – salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Car Allowance
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours. We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet; we’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations; we’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; we’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Other information

Salary/Rate From: £50,000
Salary/Rate To: £55,000

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Morgan Philips Group is a global talent solutions business that disrupts conventional thinking in executive search, recruitment and talent consulting. We operate in over 20 markets in Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa. We understand that the future is digital and social, so we embrace the latest technology, including video ads and CVs, as well as social recruiting. Our innovative services are tailored to the new world of work yet we do not lose sight of the fact that employees be they existing and potential are ultimately human beings.

We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.