Senior Planner - Hs2

Assystem; Harwell; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Assystem is seeking a Senior Planner to develop and maintain integrated project schedules, provide planning assurance, and deliver performance analysis for a major infrastructure programme. You will work client-side, ensuring governance and controls across scope, time, cost and risk, with a focus on achieving critical path milestones.

The role requires extensive experience in planning within large infrastructure projects, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to communicate complex

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and scheduling for major infrastructure, rail, utilities, or construction projects.
• Ability to review and challenge contractor programmes.
• Understanding of NEC contracts and programme management requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and review integrated programme and project schedules within Primavera P6.
• Monitor contractor and delivery partner programmes, assessing progress, logic, critical path, schedule health, and forecast completion dates.
• Provide independent challenge and assurance of contractor schedules, methodologies, and recovery plans.
• Analyse schedule performance, trends, milestones, float consumption, and programme risks.
• Support change control processes by assessing the time impact of proposed changes and compensation events.
• Produce regular planning and performance reports for project leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate planning workshops, schedule reviews, and risk sessions.
• Ensure compliance with programme controls standards, planning procedures, and governance requirements.
• Support integration of schedule data with cost, risk, and reporting functions.
• Identify potential delays and develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Contribute to business cases, delivery strategies, and programme-level planning activities.

Skills

Planning & Scheduling

Infrastructure Projects

NEC Contracts

Critical Path

Earned Value

Programme Controls

Stakeholder Mgmt

Stakeholder Comms

Job description

The Senior Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, analysing, and reporting integrated project schedules across a major infrastructure programme. Working client-side, the role provides planning assurance, performance analysis, schedule governance, and strategic programme controls support to ensure the successful delivery of project objectives relating to scope, time, cost, and risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and review integrated programme and project schedules within Primavera P6.
• Monitor contractor and delivery partner programmes, assessing progress, logic, critical path, schedule health, and forecast completion dates.
• Provide independent challenge and assurance of contractor schedules, methodologies, and recovery plans.
• Analyse schedule performance, trends, milestones, float consumption, and programme risks.
• Support change control processes by assessing the time impact of proposed changes and compensation events.
• Produce regular planning and performance reports for project leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate planning workshops, schedule reviews, and risk sessions.
• Ensure compliance with programme controls standards, planning procedures, and governance requirements.
• Support integration of schedule data with cost, risk, and reporting functions.
• Identify potential delays and develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Contribute to business cases, delivery strategies, and programme-level planning activities.

Qualifications

Key Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in planning and scheduling within major infrastructure, rail, transportation, utilities, or construction projects.
• Experience reviewing and challenging contractor programmes.
• Understanding of NEC contracts and programme management requirements.
• Knowledge of critical path analysis, earned value principles, schedule risk analysis, and programme controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to present complex schedule information to senior management and project boards.
• Experience working within a client, sponsor, or programme management environment.

Additional Information

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people's ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.