Senior Planner

AmcoGiffen; Warrington; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or car allowance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Volunteer days (up to 3)

Company contributory pension

Life insurance

Health cash plan

Career progression opportunities

Supportive planning network

Collaborative working environment

Job summary

AmcoGiffen in Warrington leads the planning function for Civil Engineering and Infrastructure across the North West. The Senior Planner (P6) will develop, manage, and maintain integrated project programmes supporting successful delivery on multi-project portfolios.

You will collaborate with Project Managers, Engineers, and clients to ensure programmes meet safety, efficiency, and performance targets, while mentoring junior planners and driving best practice across teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Senior Planner role within civil engineering / infrastructure
• Strong understanding of project controls, planning methodologies, and reporting
• Experience developing and managing complex, multi-disciplinary project programmes
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to analyse data and provide clear, actionable insights

Responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining, and managing detailed integrated project programmes using Primavera P6
• Monitoring progress, analysing performance, and identifying trends and risks to delivery
• Applying proactive mitigation strategies to ensure project objectives are achieved
• Providing project controls support including: EVA, risk and opportunity management, procurement and resource planning, change management
• Producing regular progress reports and programme updates for internal teams and clients
• Collaborating with Project Managers, Engineers, Commercial teams, and clients
• Supporting tender planning and programme development where required
• Ensuring compliance with planning standards and client requirements
• Mentoring and supporting junior planners, promoting best practice across teams

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Collaborative mindset

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Senior Planner (P6)

Civil Engineering / Infrastructure

Region: North West

Location: Warrington (supporting projects across the North West & Central region)

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Senior Planner (P6) to join our established and growing business, supporting the successful delivery of complex civil engineering and infrastructure projects across the North West.

Working across a diverse and active portfolio including rail and non-rail frameworks this role offers the opportunity to influence project success at both strategic and delivery levels, working closely with operational teams and key stakeholders across the region.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• Company car or car allowance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Up to 3 paid volunteer days
• Company contributory pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Health cash plan & employee rewards
• Structured career development and progression opportunities
• Support and employee infrastructure embedded in the business as a platform for personal and professional development creating pathways for unrivalled career development and progression opportunities internally.
• Access to a strong professional planning network and learning culture
• A supportive, collaborative working environment where your voice is heard

About The Opportunity

Based from Warrington, you will play a key role in developing, managing, and maintaining integrated project programmes that support effective planning, control, and delivery across multiple projects.

You will be part of a collaborative and well-established planning function, working alongside project teams, commercial leads, and clients to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with programme and performance expectations.

As the business continues to grow across the North West, this is a critical role in strengthening planning capability, driving best practice, and enhancing project controls across a varied and challenging project environment.

The Role

As Senior Planner, you will provide robust planning and project controls support throughout the full project lifecycle—from tender stage through to delivery and completion.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Developing, maintaining, and managing detailed integrated project programmes using Primavera P6
• Monitoring progress, analysing performance, and identifying trends and risks to delivery
• Applying proactive mitigation strategies to ensure project objectives are achieved
• Providing project controls support including:
  • Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
  • Risk and opportunity management
  • Procurement and resource planning
  • Change management and programme impact assessment
• Producing regular progress reports and programme updates for internal teams and clients
• Collaborating closely with Project Managers, Engineers, Commercial teams, and clients
• Supporting tender planning and programme development where required
• Ensuring compliance with planning standards, client requirements, and business systems
• Mentoring and supporting junior planners, promoting best practice across teams

About You

You will be an experienced and proactive planning professional with a strong background in civil engineering and infrastructure projects, ideally within rail or similar complex environments.

Essential Requirements:

• Proven experience in a Senior Planner role within civil engineering / infrastructure
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6
• Strong understanding of project controls, planning methodologies, and reporting
• Experience developing and managing complex, multi-disciplinary project programmes
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to analyse data and provide clear, actionable insights
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence and support project teams

Desirable:

• Experience working within rail infrastructure or regulated environments
• Knowledge of NEC contracts
• Previous site-based experience or strong understanding of construction delivery

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to take on a key regional role within a growing business, where you can make a tangible impact on project performance, mentor others, and help shape the future of planning excellence across the North West.

The Company

You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.

Why AmcoGiffen?

AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen

We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.

We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.

Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

Health & Wellbeing

Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.