Senior Planner

COWI; Essex; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Private health care

Hybrid working conditions

Professional Institutions membership

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

COWI is seeking an experienced Senior Planning professional to help steer a major infrastructure project. You will collaborate with Project Directors and Managers to ensure robust planning, scheduling, and performance tracking across all phases.

You will combine technical scheduling expertise with stakeholder management to maintain momentum and meet milestones, including integrating plans from Delivery Partners and managing risks and opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience with mega large-scale Construction & Civil programs (Roads, Tunnels, Major Utilities).
• Ability to integrate multiple programmes from Delivery Partners and other stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of programme and project lifecycle, delivery methodology, and Earned Value Management.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and assess detailed programme/project plans for all stages to support timely delivery.
• Prepare regular status reports and forecasts for reviews.
• Monitor and update project schedules, critical paths, and milestones.
• Maintain the Critical Path Network to ensure timely completion of activities.
• Liaise with project team, cost controllers, and clients to monitor trends and impacts.

Skills

Quality Systems

Primavera P6

MS Project

TILOS

Acumen Fuse

Excel

PowerPoint

AI tools

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

TILOS

Acumen Fuse

Job description

Do you want to contribute to the planning of a major infrastructure project? Can you maintain project momentum? Are you experienced planner? Then, read on. This could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

Tostrategically contribute to the delivery of a complex infrastructure project, we are looking for a Senior Planning to join us. Working on major joint venture, you’ll work closely with Project Directors and Managers, ensuring robust planning, scheduling, and performance tracking across all project phases.

You’ll combine technical expertise with stakeholder management, encouraging collaboration and resolving conflicts to maintain project momentum and meet project milestones.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Prepare and assess detailedprogramme/project plans for all stages andfacetsof a project to support thetimelydelivery of project outcomes. Demonstrating a solid understanding of the programme and project life cycle, delivery methodology, Earned Value Management, communication, and stakeholder management
• Prepare regular status reports and forecasts forprogramme, project, and client reviews.
• Demonstrate experience in the ability to integrate multiple programmes from Delivery Partners and other stakeholders and own them
• Report onschedule performance,identifyissues and opportunities for improvement, and recommend corrective actions, ensuring compliance and addressing any non-compliance.
• Developand maintainrolling 4-week construction schedules and milestone tracking, Level I, II, III IV schedules.
• Develop andmaintain work Breakdown Structures (WBS) in collaboration with Project Directors and Managers.
• Monitor and update project schedules, critical paths, milestones and completion timelines.
• Maintain the Critical Path Network to ensuretimely completion of all activities.
• Analyse progress data to forecast issue, programme scope andmaintain detailedprogramme/project schedules in alignment with contract obligations
• Analyseand assure Delivery Partner / Contractor / Stakeholder schedules against contract scope and requirements.
• Analyseprogress data and issue project critical path analysis reports, bulk release and install curves and analysis,milestonessummary and level 2 - 3 schedule.
• Assist in expediting engineering, procurement and enabling worksprogramme schedules.
• Liaise with the project team, cost controllers, and clients tomonitor trends and assess their impact on theprogramme/project.
• Ensure and maintain Primavera P6 schedules meet target dates and performance metrics.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or related field.
• Advanced knowledge of Quality Systems Process & Procedures and associated Planning & Scheduling tools: Primavera P6, MS Project, TILOS, Acumen Fuse.Advanced Knowledge of project management tools, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT and Co-Pilot toassisting the swift clear communication of delivery products.
• Significant multi-year experience in mega large-scale Construction & Civil programs; Roads, Tunnels and Major Utility Relocation & Outages.
• Extensive experience in the management of Primavera P6 EPPM, P6 Risk, TILOS, AcumenFuse and any other planning software
• Good communications skills to clearly convey complex scheduling information to stakeholders at all levels.
• Identify scheduling conflicts early and facilitates resolution through negotiation, compromise, and alignment with project goals.
• Takes initiative to spot potential risks and creates workable plans to preserve schedule integrity
• The ability to ensures accuracy and consistency in all planning documentation and schedule updates.

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, NorthAmericaand India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring theirexpertisein engineering, architecture,energyand environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days' holidayplus all UKbank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at [e-mail] .

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com , where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer.

COWIprovidesequal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin,ageor disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring,placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.