SC Cleared Lead Planner – Construction Scheduling Maestro

Cmr.london; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Merit-based progression

Capability matrix

Small team impact

Rewards culture

Job summary

CMR is recruiting a Lead Planner (SC Cleared) to join our Glasgow hybrid team on a full-time basis. You will lead the development and maintenance of robust construction schedules, aligning it with the project scope and delivery strategy.

Ideal candidates bring solid scheduling expertise (Primavera P6), experience at lead planner level, and strong communication skills to collaborate with cost, risk, procurement teams and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Solid scheduling expertise in construction or infrastructure.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 and MS Office.
• Experience leading planners or schedule ownership.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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.
• Define the Basis of Estimate for the construction schedule scope, including key assumptions, exclusions and constraints.
• Provide planning leadership across the programme, ensuring schedule quality, logic, integration and governance are maintained.
• Work closely with Cost and Risk Management teams to ensure alignment of all 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 ensuring buy-in to the Programme's construction schedule.
• Review supplier and contractor schedules, challenging logic, assumptions, progress and deliverability where required.
• Ensure schedule estimates are validated through the use of benchmark data, design information and BIM.

Skills

Scheduling expertise

Primavera P6

MS Office

Lead planner experience

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in construction/engineering/project management

Tools

Power BI

Job description

CMR is recruiting a Lead Planner (SC Cleared) to join our Glasgow hybrid team on a full-time basis. You will lead the development and maintenance of robust construction schedules, aligning it with the project scope and delivery strategy.

Ideal candidates bring solid scheduling expertise (Primavera P6), experience at lead planner level, and strong communication skills to collaborate with cost, risk, procurement teams and external stakeholders.