Senior Planner

Advance Training & Recruitment Services; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering organisation is seeking a Senior Planner to support a nuclear new build programme from its Bristol hub. This role focuses on developing high-quality project schedules using Primavera P6, managing and maintaining project timelines, and engaging with multidisciplinary teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in major infrastructure projects and strong stakeholder engagement skills. A hybrid working model and competitive compensation are part of the offer.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Competitive day rate

Opportunity to support complex engineering programmes

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Senior Planner within major infrastructure, nuclear, or heavy engineering projects.
• Advanced user of Primavera P6 with the ability to analyse complex schedules.
• Solid understanding of critical path analysis and earned value principles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed schedules using Primavera P6.
• Produce fully logic-linked programmes and perform critical path analyses.
• Work with teams to capture progress and maintain accurate schedule baselines.

Skills

Project controls

Stakeholder engagement

Critical path analysis

Primavera P6

Fluent or conversational French

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job Title: Senior Planner Location: Bristol (Hybrid)

Overview

A leading engineering organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Planner to support a major nuclear new build programme from its Bristol delivery hub. This role will focus on developing, maintaining, and assuring high-quality project schedules, working closely with engineering, procurement, construction, and client teams. You will play a key role in ensuring programme visibility, delivery confidence, and effective decision‑making across a large, multi-disciplinary project.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and maintain detailed schedules using Primavera P6, ensuring alignment to project scope, key milestones, and interfaces.
• Produce fully logic‑linked programmes, critical path analyses, and scenario planning to support project forecasting and strategic decision‑making.
• Work with engineering, design, procurement, and construction teams to capture progress, validate inputs, and maintain an accurate schedule baseline.
• Lead schedule reviews, progress meetings, and performance tracking, providing clear reporting to senior leadership and client stakeholders.
• Support integration of multiple workstreams into a consolidated master schedule, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and compliance with programme controls.
• Contribute to risk and opportunity reviews, identifying schedule risks and supporting mitigation strategies.
• Support planning processes, governance, and best practice implementation across the project.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior planners as required.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as a Senior Planner within major infrastructure, nuclear, energy, defence, construction, or heavy engineering projects.
• Advanced user of Primavera P6 with the ability to produce, analyse, and challenge complex schedules.
• Solid understanding of project controls, critical path analysis, earned value principles, and progress measurement.
• Experience working in highly regulated or safety‑critical environments (nuclear experience advantageous).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and articulate scheduling insights clearly.
• Fluent or conversational French is highly desirable due to international interfaces on the project.

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to support one of the largest and most complex engineering programmes in the UK.
• Hybrid working model with collaborative and supportive teams.
• Competitive day rate

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.