Senior Planner

HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

HS2 Ltd is seeking a senior Planning professional to lead the integrated project schedule across delivery areas. You will drive dependencies, risk mitigation and robust planning practices to support decision making.

You will manage planning input with project controls, coach planners, and ensure schedules align with cost and risk assessments, while promoting a collaborative, diverse, and safety-conscious environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading planning across large, complex programmes.
• Advanced knowledge of NEC contracts and project controls.
• Experience governing project baselines and cost/risk integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and integration of the project schedule across delivery areas.
• Coordinate dependencies, risks and mitigation strategies with delivery teams.
• Manage change with Project Controls Managers and maintain schedules.
• Support What-if scenario planning and decision making.
• Provide planning and integration guidance across the programme.

Skills

Primavera P6

Team leadership

Data analysis

Communication

Problem solving

Coaching

Driver's licence

Tools

Prism

CEMAR

Job description

Job Description

Salary from £78,568 inclusive of 20% flex fund

Location can be London or Birmingham HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

Job Description

Salary from £78,568 inclusive of 20% flex fund

Location can be London or Birmingham HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

Job Purpose

This role is responsible for leading the development and maintenance of an integrated project schedule across delivery area(s), and the wider HS2 Programme of Works whilst supporting the management and coordination of dependencies and interfaces. A key aspect of this role is leading a team and ensuring the application of Project Planning Systems, Policies and Standards are adhered too.

About The Role

• To be accountable for leading the management and integration of the project schedule across delivery areas, ensuring dependencies and interfaces are effectively managed, identifying any risks, potential impacts, and proposing mitigation strategies where applicable.
• To be responsible for leading and enacting schedule input into developing and maintaining an integrated project schedule across delivery areas. Correlating schedule, cost and risk assessment through to influence critical path analysis and providing robust and quality plans to support decision making.
• To be accountable for identifying key programme interfaces and working with delivery teams within both HS2 and the supply chain, to document and manage these.
• To be responsible for working with Project Managers and Project Controls Managers to maintain project schedules and effectively manage change.
• To be responsible for supporting What-if scenario planning, providing integrated solutions to programme and project conflicts and recoveries, supporting trade off decision making.
• Provide proactive specialist planning and integration support where required.
• To be accountable for collaborating with other project delivery teams, the supply chain and stakeholders (including regulatory bodies, and the Department for Transport) where necessary to integrate all time, cost and quality information to support the monitoring of project progress and supply chain performance.
• To be responsible for working closely with the supply chain teams to constructively challenge and enhance delivery performance whilst developing mitigation strategies across the programme.
• Aligned to the reporting cycle carryout associated review/assurance of supply chain submissions whilst adhering to contract requirements. Attend site walkouts as required to validate data.
• To have accountability for providing functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to direct reports.
• To have accountability for developing and delivering the planning and integration policy, processes and standards across the business, taking industry best practice to facilitate continuous improvement and ensure these are implemented consistently and effectively across development and delivery areas.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Skills

About You

• Ability to use planning software including Primavera P6 at an advanced level.
• Ability to proactively lead and integrate planning activities across multiple complex projects.
• Ability to lead a team of Planners to deliver planning products, processes, procedures and guidance that support project delivery and improve efficiency and accuracy within planning systems.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data, producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience.
• Ability to present information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences at various levels.
• Able to solve problems with an attention to detail and communicate solutions.
• Ability to support, coach and motivate direct reports.
• Full drivers licence to attend site visits, ability to validate supply chain submissions.

Knowledge

1. Knowledge of planning systems, processes and procedures that are capable of delivering large complex programmes.
2. Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management and an understanding of how they interrelate.
3. Experience of leading and challenging contract progress and schedule change reviews.
4. Understanding of NEC contracts / agreements, amendments, early warning notices and the work flows of communications between contractor and client.
5. Knowledge of the all stages of the project life cycle.
6. Knowledge of metrics used to build and maintain integrated schedules.

Type Of Experience

1. Experience of working in a multi discipline environment delivering a senior planning or planning role within complex delivery projects.
2. Experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting.
3. Experience of working on projects during all stages within the project lifecycle.
4. Experience of governance procedures such as re-baselining, funding approval or major contract implementation.
5. Experienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.).

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.