Senior Planner – Infrastructure Projects & Schedule Risk

ASSYSTEM; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

ASSYSTEM is seeking a Senior Planner to develop and maintain integrated schedules for a major infrastructure programme on a client-side basis. You will provide planning assurance, performance analysis, schedule governance, and controls support to ensure objectives in scope, time, cost and risk are met.

You will lead schedule health reviews, monitor contractor programmes, analyse trends, and support change control. Strong Primavera P6 experience and NEC contract knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in planning and scheduling within major infrastructure, rail, transportation, utilities, or construction projects.
• Strong Primavera P6 expertise.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and review integrated schedules in Primavera P6.
• Monitor contractor and delivery partner programmes and forecast dates.
• Provide independent challenge and assurance of schedules.
• Analyse schedule performance, milestones, float consumption, and risks.
• Support change control by assessing time impact of proposed changes.
• Produce regular planning and performance reports for leadership.
• Facilitate planning workshops and schedule reviews.
• Ensure compliance with controls standards, planning procedures and governance.
• Support integration of schedule data with cost, risk, and reporting functions.
• Identify delays and develop mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Contribute to business cases, delivery strategies, and programme-level planning.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Planning and scheduling

Risk assessment

Client-side delivery

Tools

Primavera P6

NEC contracts familiarity

Job description

ASSYSTEM is seeking a Senior Planner to develop and maintain integrated schedules for a major infrastructure programme on a client-side basis. You will provide planning assurance, performance analysis, schedule governance, and controls support to ensure objectives in scope, time, cost and risk are met.

You will lead schedule health reviews, monitor contractor programmes, analyse trends, and support change control. Strong Primavera P6 experience and NEC contract knowledge are essential.