Senior Planner

AtkinsRéalis; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Flexible holiday allowances

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Planner to join our Programme Services, Advisory & Controls practice in the UK. You will develop, govern, and integrate complex multi‑project schedules within an enterprise environment, ensuring quality, consistency, and robust governance across the programme and its sub‑projects.

Responsibilities include building IMS schedules, managing baselines, and delivering weekly milestone variance analyses.

Qualifications

• You will be a confident communicator and have the ability to clearly explain complex schedule information to an array of stakeholders across functions and contractors.
• Provide clear narrative reporting on variances, trends, and schedule risks.
• Work collaboratively with Document Control, Cost, Risk, Engineering, and Delivery teams.
• Support decision‑making by presenting options, impacts, and recommendations.
• Escalate issues early with clear analysis and recovery proposals.

Responsibilities

• Building and managing programmes, projects, and contractor schedules within Primavera P6 EPPM to consistent standards.
• Structure schedules in accordance with approved Work Breakdown Structures, coding conventions, and Project Controls Management Plans.
• Integrate Sub‑Project schedules into a coherent Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) with cross‑project dependencies.
• Maintain fully resourced and cost‑loaded schedules enabling accurate forecasting and performance analysis.
• Establish and maintain formally approved schedule baselines for Sub‑Projects and the Programme.
• Maintain a full schedule baseline register with version control and traceability.
• Ensure all approvals, justifications, and impact analyses are recorded.
• Manage Programme, Interface, and Critical Path Milestone Registers.
• Ensure all milestones are kept up to date in P6 and the Document Management System.
• Provide weekly analysis of milestone performance, variance drivers, and recovery actions.
• Ensure clear visibility of strategic decision points and external dependencies.
• Ensure schedules are resource and cost‑loaded.
• Generate and interpret EVM metrics including PV, EV, AC, CPI, SPI.
• Identify performance trends and variance drivers for monthly reporting.
• Use dashboard (e.g., Power BI) to provide clear, visual insights for stakeholders.

Job description

Overview

AtkinsRéalis is a world‑leading design, engineering and project management organisation. We connect people, data and technology to transform infrastructure and energy systems across the globe. Our purpose is simple: to engineer a better future for our planet and its people, creating sustainable solutions that shape the world around us. Our teams deliver some of the most complex and transformative programmes worldwide. By combining multidisciplinary expertise, global best practice and deep sector knowledge, we help clients achieve ambitious outcomes. Our success is powered by talented people whose diverse thinking and creativity drive innovation every day. Due to the growth of our Project Controls pipeline, we are seeking a Planner to join our Programme Services, Advisory & Controls (P‑SAC) Practice as a Planner to work on large programmes of work. The role will require delivering planning, scheduling, and progress management service across a large complex programme, ensuring fully integrated, risk informed, quality assured schedules that support decision making, Earned Value Management, and programme governance.

Your role

You will have capability to develop, maintain, and govern complex, multi project schedules within an enterprise environment, to include:

• Building and managing programmes, projects, and contractor schedules within Primavera P6 EPPM to consistent standards.
• Structure schedules in accordance with approved Work Breakdown Structures, coding conventions, and Project Controls Management Plans.
• Integrate Sub‑Project schedules into a coherent Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) with cross‑project dependencies.
• Maintain fully resourced and cost‑loaded schedules enabling accurate forecasting and performance analysis.
• Establish and maintain formally approved schedule baselines for Sub‑Projects and the Programme.
• Maintain a full schedule baseline register with version control and traceability.
• Ensure all approvals, justifications, and impact analyses are recorded.
• Manage Programme, Interface, and Critical Path Milestone Registers.
• Ensure all milestones are kept up to date in P6 and the Document Management System.
• Provide weekly analysis of milestone performance, variance drivers, and recovery actions.
• Ensure clear visibility of strategic decision points and external dependencies.
• Ensure schedules are resource and cost‑loaded.
• Generate and interpret EVM metrics including PV, EV, AC, CPI, SPI.
• Identify performance trends and variance drivers for monthly reporting.
• Use dashboard (e.g., Power BI) to provide clear, visual insights for stakeholders.

About you

You will be a confident communicator and have the ability to clearly explain complex schedule information to an array of stakeholders across functions and contractors.

You will be able to:

• Provide clear narrative reporting on variances, trends, and schedule risks.
• Work collaboratively with Document Control, Cost, Risk, Engineering, and Delivery teams.
• Support decision‑making by presenting options, impacts, and recommendations.
• Escalate issues early with clear analysis and recovery proposals.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.