Senior Planner - Primavera P6 & EPC Project Leader

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Private healthcare

Enhanced pension

Health screening

Life insurance

Disability income protection

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Planner to lead planning for complex EPC projects in the UK energy sector. You will own multiple programmes, develop resource-loaded schedules, and ensure alignment with NEC/FIDIC contractual requirements.

You will collaborate with project managers, clients and multidisciplinary teams, delivering updates and forecasts while maintaining rigorous controls and schedule integrity.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Planner or similar in EPC, energy, utilities or electrical infra.
• Experience delivering projects under NEC and/or FIDIC forms of contract.
• Direct engagement with clients, consultants, contractors and senior stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge of scheduling, forecasting, earned value management and project controls.
• Expert user of Oracle Primavera P6.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic planning leadership across the full project lifecycle with UK EPC projects.
• Develop, maintain and govern integrated project programmes using Primavera P6.
• Manage interfaces and dependencies, mitigating impacts on milestones.
• Analyse scope and execution strategies to produce resource-loaded schedules.
• Monitor progress, assess critical path and propose mitigation strategies.
• Produce programme updates, dashboards and forecast analyses for stakeholders.
• Advise teams and leadership on schedule performance, risks and opportunities.

Skills

Primavera P6

NEC/FIDIC experience

Project controls

Stakeholder management

Scheduling

Risk analysis

Cost forecasting

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Planner to lead planning for complex EPC projects in the UK energy sector. You will own multiple programmes, develop resource-loaded schedules, and ensure alignment with NEC/FIDIC contractual requirements.

You will collaborate with project managers, clients and multidisciplinary teams, delivering updates and forecasts while maintaining rigorous controls and schedule integrity.