Senior Planner

Electus Recruitment; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist engineering recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Planner to manage schedule development for critical infrastructure projects across the UK. You will utilize Primavera P6 and oversee performance tracking, communicate with various teams, and drive analysis to support decision-making. This permanent role offers structured progression in a collaborative environment and involves some site attendance, operating in a hybrid manner.

Qualifications

• Experience in complex infrastructure projects, preferably in defence or nuclear.
• Familiarity with NEC or similar contractual environments.
• Strong understanding of how planning links with cost and risk.

Responsibilities

• Manage full schedule development and performance tracking.
• Produce integrated outputs across cost, risk, and time.
• Support workshops and stakeholder reviews.

Skills

Building and maintaining detailed schedules

Leading baseline control

EVM analysis

Effective communication

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

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Senior Planner
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Planning work that matters

When a complex infrastructure project is at stake, planning is not just a process. It is a deciding factor. Schedules shape budgets, risks, delivery paths and client confidence.
This organisation supports major programmes across the UK’s critical infrastructure, including defence, nuclear, energy and transport. As a Senior Planner, you will join a trusted planning function that works at the centre of high value projects, where structured thinking and timely insight make a real difference.

Your role in the project

You will manage full schedule development and performance tracking using Primavera P6, with responsibility for:

Building and maintaining detailed, logic linked schedules

Leading baseline control, progress updates and critical path reviews

Producing integrated outputs across cost, risk and time

Supporting workshops, stakeholder reviews and reporting cycles

Driving EVM analysis and scenario planning to support decisions

What you bring

You have worked on complex infrastructure projects, ideally within defence or nuclear, and bring experience in:

Primavera P6 and earned value reporting

NEC or similar contractual environments

Communicating effectively across delivery and commercial teams

Understanding how planning links with cost and risk

Environment and progression

You will join a collaborative team that values planning as a core technical discipline. There is structured progression, support for further development and the opportunity to move between sectors.
This is a hybrid role with some site attendance expected, depending on location.

This is a permanent role.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV or details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client’s site, this vacancy is only open to British Citizens.