Senior Planner

Linesight; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Linesight is looking for a Senior Planner in Greater London. In this position, you will build and manage project schedules using critical path methodology and Primavera P6. The role emphasizes teamwork and responsibility, supporting your career growth in a collaborative and diverse work environment.

You will need a strong background in project management or construction, along with effective communication and risk assessment skills. Linesight prides itself on diversity and accessibility in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience building project schedules using critical path methodology.
• Ability to negotiate and mediate timelines and dependencies.
• Knowledge of scheduling best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build project schedules encompassing full project scope and milestones.
• Manage the fully integrated project schedule and provide updates.
• Review and ensure external schedules adhere to best practices.

Skills

Planning and scheduling skills

Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) experience

Primavera P6 planning software

Detail oriented

Quality focused

Education

Degree in project management or construction

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Planner at Linesight you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Build project schedules encompassing full project scope, milestones and timelines, using critical path methodology
• Ensure clear responsibility and ownership for all project outcomes is defined via Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) methodology
• Ensure schedule adheres to the project execution plan and in particular contracting, procurement and project control strategy documents and plans
• Ensure there is a clear method in place for baselining of schedules and manage periodic updates
• Manage the fully integrated project schedule and structure it to allow review at a range of levels and details
• Negotiate and mediate timelines and project interdependencies between key partners for a great client outcome
• Provide regular updates on schedule progress
• Review external schedules to ensure that they are compiled using scheduling best practices

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have grown your planning and scheduling skills
• Have demonstrated quantitative risk assessment (QRA) experience, and expertly interpret and communicate findings to key partners
• Have working experience using Primavera P6 planning software to build your schedule
• Have a degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction
• Are detail oriented and quality focused
• Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!