SC-Cleared Construction Planner | Hybrid (Glasgow)

Cmr.london; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

CMR is seeking an experienced Planner to join our award-winning team in Glasgow on a hybrid basis. You will develop and maintain robust construction schedules, with a focus on accuracy, defensibility, and integration with cost and risk teams.

Key requirements include solid scheduling experience with Primavera P6, strong MS Office skills, and the ability to build schedules from first principles. SC clearance is required, and you will collaborate across internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in a construction or infrastructure environment.
• Solid scheduling experience, including Primavera P6.
• Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Confidence building schedules from first principles and reviewing supplier submissions.
• Understanding of schedule hierarchy, integration, governance and change control.
• Familiarity with NEC or FIDIC contracts.
• Strong communication skills, with a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to support planning discussions with internal teams, clients, suppliers and key stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and maintenance of robust, realistic and defensible construction schedules.
• Develop schedule estimates for construction works, ensuring they are aligned to the project scope, delivery strategy and key assumptions.
• Support the definition of the Basis of Estimate for the construction schedule scope, including key assumptions, exclusions and constraints.
• Build and maintain project schedules, ensuring schedule quality, logic, integration and governance are maintained.
• Work closely with Cost and Risk Management teams to help ensure alignment of estimates, assumptions and schedule impacts.
• Work with the Risk team to support the QSRA process.
• Identify and manage key internal and external interfaces including procurement, consents, dependent projects and delivery milestones.
• Work closely with key internal/external stakeholders to support buy-in to the Programme’s construction schedule.
• Review supplier and contractor schedules, challenging logic, assumptions, progress and deliverability where required.
• Support the validation of schedule estimates through the use of benchmark data, design information and BIM.

Skills

Primavera P6 scheduling

MS Office

Strong communication

Collaborative mindset

Education

Degree or equivalent in construction/engineering/PM

Tools

Power BI

Job description

CMR is seeking an experienced Planner to join our award-winning team in Glasgow on a hybrid basis. You will develop and maintain robust construction schedules, with a focus on accuracy, defensibility, and integration with cost and risk teams.

Key requirements include solid scheduling experience with Primavera P6, strong MS Office skills, and the ability to build schedules from first principles. SC clearance is required, and you will collaborate across internal and external stakeholders.