Senior Planner: Lead Integrated Schedules & Collaboration

High Speed Two (HS2); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits fund

Competitive benefits

Pensionable benefits

Job summary

HS2 Ltd is seeking a Senior Planner to lead the development of an integrated project schedule across a delivery area, coordinating dependencies and interfaces with the delivery teams and supply chain. You will correlate schedule, cost and risk to influence critical path analysis and support robust decision making.

The role requires leading a team of planners, maintaining baseline schedules, and providing reporting and planning guidance across development and delivery areas.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering a senior planning or planning role within complex delivery projects.
• Experience in baseline maintenance, schedule management, earned value, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting.
• Knowledge of core Project Controls disciplines and how they interrelate (Schedule, Cost, Change, Risk).
• Understanding NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and client–contractor workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of an integrated project schedule across a delivery area and manage dependencies and interfaces.
• Input schedule into integrated baselines, linking time, cost and risk for informed decision making.
• Identify key programme interfaces and manage them with HS2 and supply chain teams.
• Maintain project schedules, control changes, and provide assurance on supply chain plans.
• Support what-if scenario planning and provide integrated solutions for conflicts and recoveries.
• Provide specialist planning and integration support as required.
• Collaborate with project teams, supply chain and stakeholders to integrate time, cost and quality information for monitoring progress.
• Promote and implement planning capability improvements across the programme.

Skills

Primavera P6

Planning leadership

Team leadership

Data analysis & reporting

Clear communication

Mentoring direct reports

EDI advocacy

Tools

Prism

CEMAR

Job description

HS2 Ltd is seeking a Senior Planner to lead the development of an integrated project schedule across a delivery area, coordinating dependencies and interfaces with the delivery teams and supply chain. You will correlate schedule, cost and risk to influence critical path analysis and support robust decision making.

The role requires leading a team of planners, maintaining baseline schedules, and providing reporting and planning guidance across development and delivery areas.