SC Cleared Senior Planner — Construction Scheduling & Controls

Cooper Moss Rutland; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cooper Moss Rutland is seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join our award-winning team in the UK. The role focuses on developing robust construction schedules with strong links to cost, risk and change control.

You will work within a multi-disciplinary environment to support project controls across the UK. The successful candidate will have SC clearance, extensive scheduling experience (Primavera P6), and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in a construction or infrastructure environment.
• Solid scheduling expertise, including Primavera P6.
• Senior Planner experience with schedule ownership and coordination.
• Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of NEC or FIDIC contracts and change control.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust, realistic construction schedules.
• Create schedule estimates aligned to scope, delivery strategy and assumptions.
• Define Basis of Estimate for construction schedule and constraints.
• Support planning leadership to ensure schedule quality and governance.
• Coordinate with Cost and Risk teams for estimates and impacts.
• Work with Risk team to support QSRA process.
• Identify interfaces with procurement, approvals and milestones.
• Ensure stakeholder buy-in to the programme schedule.
• Review supplier/contractor schedules for logic and deliverability.
• Validate schedules using benchmark data, design information and BIM.

Skills

Scheduling expertise

SC clearance

Communication

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in construction/engineering/PM

APM/PMI/AACE membership (desirable)

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

MS Office

NEC/FIDIC contracts

Job description

Cooper Moss Rutland is seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join our award-winning team in the UK. The role focuses on developing robust construction schedules with strong links to cost, risk and change control.

You will work within a multi-disciplinary environment to support project controls across the UK. The successful candidate will have SC clearance, extensive scheduling experience (Primavera P6), and strong communication skills.