Senior Energy Transmission Planner – Programme & Controls

WSP in the UK & Ireland; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP is seeking an experienced Planning professional to join our Energy Networks team in the UK. You will develop and maintain robust project programmes for energy transmission and distribution projects, coordinating with project managers, design leads and clients to ensure successful delivery.

You will apply Primavera P6 to build logic-linked schedules, manage interfaces and risks, and contribute to cost forecasting and reporting. A proactive, collaborative approach and NEC4 knowledge are valued.

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 the UK regulated and non-regulated transmission and distribution sectors, including design management implications and delivery risks.
• Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6, with 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; NEC4 contracts knowledge would be desirable.

Responsibilities

• Development, maintenance and challenge of robust project programmes, including clear logic, dependencies, interfaces, key dates and critical path activities.
• Work 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 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, focusing on programme planning, reporting and controls.

Skills

Primavera P6

Planning

Stakeholder liaison

Risk & change management

Education

HNC in engineering/construction/project controls/planning

Tools

NEC4 contracts knowledge

Job description

WSP is seeking an experienced Planning professional to join our Energy Networks team in the UK. You will develop and maintain robust project programmes for energy transmission and distribution projects, coordinating with project managers, design leads and clients to ensure successful delivery.

You will apply Primavera P6 to build logic-linked schedules, manage interfaces and risks, and contribute to cost forecasting and reporting. A proactive, collaborative approach and NEC4 knowledge are valued.