Senior Planner

Balfour Beatty plc; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc in Peterborough is seeking a Senior Planner to own project programmes within the @one Alliance, driving robust, accurate plans and challenging delays to achieve outcomes. You will work with site, commercial and engineering teams in a hybrid setup.

You’ll lead 4D planning, manage risks, attend site visits, and ensure plans align with Anglian Water’s requirements and AMP8 targets. Strong Primavera P6 skills and experience delivering large civil projects are essential; join a

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale civil engineering projects, ideally within the water sector.
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Experience using 4D planning tools and techniques.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and extract planning insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project programmes aligned with alliance requirements.
• Lead collaborative digital planning and meetings for scope and sequencing.
• Coordinate with delivery teams to ensure planning methodology consistency.
• Identify risks and opportunities and drive mitigation for milestones.
• Create 4D animations and gather progress updates for critical paths.
• Produce project planning reports and attend meetings as required.
• Maintain programme integrity and align with cost forecasts.
• Promote best practices and continuous improvement across the alliance.

Skills

Primavera P6

4D planning

stakeholder communication

multidisciplinary teamwork

Job description

About the role

Senior Planner – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Peterborough / Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week office or site‑based)

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the (6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

Entering AMP 8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we’re taking on nature‑based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

As Senior Planner, you will play a critical role within an integrated project delivery team, taking full ownership of project programmes and ensuring plans are robust, accurate and effectively maintained. Working closely with site, commercial and engineering teams, you will drive delivery performance, proactively manage risk, and challenge delay or deviation to achieve successful project outcomes.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Control

• Develop and maintain detailed project programmes in line with @one Alliance and Anglian Water requirements
• Lead collaborative digital planning and production meetings to ensure clarity of scope, sequencing and delivery expectations
• Liaise closely with delivery teams to ensure consistency in planning methodology and outputs
• Identify risks and opportunities, driving mitigation strategies to protect key milestones

4D Planning & Reporting

• Develop 4D animations and digital rehearsals to support construction planning and execution
• Gather progress updates, analyse impacts on critical paths and key dates, and challenge teams to maintain momentum
• Attend site regularly to capture accurate programme information

Communication & Quality

• Clearly communicate programme priorities, critical activities and constraints to project teams
• Provide project‑specific planning reports and attend relevant meetings as required
• Maintain high planning standards, ensuring programme integrity, and alignment with cost forecasts
• Promote best practice and continuous improvement across the alliance

Who we're looking for

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience delivering large‑scale, high‑value civil engineering projects, ideally within the water sector
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 (essential)
• Experience using 4D planning tools and techniques
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and extract key planning insights
• Excellent communication skills, able to present complex information clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to work collaboratively within multi‑disciplinary teams
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to health and safety

This is an opportunity to take on a pivotal role within an innovative alliance that is redefining how major infrastructure programmes are delivered. If you’re ready to make an impact during AMP8, we’d love to hear from you.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]