Senior Energy Transmission Planner & Programme Controls

WSP in the UK & Ireland; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

WSP is seeking a skilled project planning professional to join the Energy Networks team in the UK. You will develop, maintain and challenge robust project programmes for energy transmission and distribution projects, collaborating with project managers, design managers and delivery teams.

The role offers hybrid working across the UK, with opportunities to shape delivery strategies, manage interfaces, and support cost forecasting and reporting.

Qualifications

• Minimum of an HNC in a relevant engineering, construction, project controls or planning discipline.
• Experience developing, maintaining and challenging project programmes for energy transmission and distribution projects, ideally within the UK electricity sector.
• Knowledge of UK regulated and non-regulated transmission and distribution sectors, including the programme implications of design management, client reviews, interfaces and delivery risks.
• Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6, with the ability to build logic-linked programmes, manage dependencies, resource load and level activities, analyse progress and support recovery planning.
• A proactive approach to planning, with confidence to create, develop, test and challenge programmes rather than simply record updates.
• Experience liaising with project managers, design managers, technical teams, clients and stakeholders. Knowledge of NEC4 contracts would be desirable.

Responsibilities

• Development, maintenance and challenge of robust project programmes, including clear logic, dependencies, interfaces, key dates and critical path activities.
• Working with project managers, design managers, technical leads and delivery teams to define deliverables, design review periods, client approvals and programme assumptions.
• Proactive identification and management of programme interfaces, constraints, risks, opportunities and change impacts across internal teams, clients and stakeholders.
• Creation, development and ongoing management of fully integrated project programmes, including resource loading, resource levelling, milestone tracking and progress forecasting.
• Monitoring, control and reporting of progress against agreed baselines, including analysis of float, dependencies, slippage, recovery actions and forecast completion dates.
• Supporting project controls activities by providing programme inputs to cost forecasting, resource planning, change management and project reporting.
• Working closely with engineering and design management resources to sequence design activities, manage review periods, coordinate interfaces and support timely delivery of project deliverables.
• Support to bid teams in the development of tender programmes, planning assumptions, delivery methodologies and responses to client programme requirements.
• Supporting the delivery of consultancy services to clients through frameworks, with a focus on programme planning, reporting and controls.

Skills

Project planning

Programme controls

Stakeholder management

Proactive planning

NEC4 contracts knowledge

Education

HNC in engineering/construction/project controls/planning

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

WSP is seeking a skilled project planning professional to join the Energy Networks team in the UK. You will develop, maintain and challenge robust project programmes for energy transmission and distribution projects, collaborating with project managers, design managers and delivery teams.

The role offers hybrid working across the UK, with opportunities to shape delivery strategies, manage interfaces, and support cost forecasting and reporting.