Senior Planner - Suffolk - Bury St Edmunds

CMR; Bury St Edmunds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Pension scheme

Life Assurance (x4 salary)

Bonus potential

25 days holiday

Job summary

Cooper Moss Rutland (CMR) seeks an experienced Senior Planner to lead the planning and controls for a major programme. The role sits within a high-calibre team delivering complex infrastructure projects. Hybrid work arrangement with 2 days in Suffolk and 3 days at home.

The ideal candidate will have extensive planning experience, advanced Primavera P6 skills and strong stakeholder management capabilities, enabling effective coordination across engineering, construction and client teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in planning and scheduling large infrastructure projects.
• Strong schedule development and critical path analysis skills.
• Stakeholder management across multiple levels and interfaces.
• Experience managing risks, issues and opportunities in complex programmes.
• Proven ability to develop integrated master schedules in multi-contractor environments.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage and maintain integration of contractor programmes across multiple workstreams.
• Manage critical path activities, interfaces, dependencies and baselines to meet milestones.
• Coordinate with project teams to ensure programme alignment and clear reporting.
• Monitor programme performance, manage change and identify schedule risks/scenarios.
• Provide schedule assurance and actionable insights to stakeholders and senior leaders.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Primavera P6

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Master schedule development

Clear communication

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Position: Senior Planner

Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 2 days/week, 3 days home

Type: Full-time

Start Date: Immediate

Salary: Competitive

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join our dynamic award winning team. The successful candidate will lead the planning and controls function for eight work packages associated with the development of a major programme.

This role sits directly within Cooper Moss Rutland, supporting client delivery through best-in-class planning expertise. This role requires a strong background in integrated planning, with experience within energy, power or similar complex infrastructure environments highly advantageous.

About us: CMR is an award winning project controls consultancy that is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. Our approach and culture have been recognised globally, with CMR named Global Project Controls Small Business of the Year 2025 (Project Controls Expo UK Awards) and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2026 (Great Place to Work)

Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry.

Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention.

What’s in it for you?

• At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before.

• If you demonstrate the capability, our merit-based system will enable you to develop fast.

• We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas.

• Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference.

• We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough.

You’ll

• Develop, manage and maintain the integration of contractor programmes, ensuring alignment across multiple workstreams and delivery objectives.

• Manage critical path activities, interfaces, dependencies and baseline schedules to support the achievement of key programme milestones.

• Coordinate with project management, engineering, construction, supply chain and client teams to ensure effective communication and programme alignment.

• Monitor programme performance and manage change, identifying risks, trends and potential impacts on schedules and delivery.

• Provide schedule assurance, clear programme reporting and actionable insights to stakeholders and senior leadership teams to support informed decision-making.

We’re looking for:

Essential

• Extensive experience in planning and scheduling large-scale infrastructure, construction, engineering, or utilities projects.

• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, including schedule development, critical path analysis, progress measurement, resource loading and programme reporting.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels

• Demonstrable experience managing complex interfaces across multiple workstreams, disciplines, contractors and delivery partners.

• Proven ability to identify, analyse and mitigate programme risks, issues and opportunities.

• Experience developing and maintaining integrated master schedules within a multi-contractor environment.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate programme impacts and recovery strategies.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced project environment while maintaining attention to detail and programme governance standards.

Desirable

• Experience delivering electricity transmission, substation, overhead line (OHL), or other power sector projects.

• Knowledge of NEC contracts.

• Familiarity with Earned Value Management (EVM).

• Experience supporting programme optimisation, scenario modelling and recovery planning.

At CMR we have a strong culture driven by our 9 Core Principles. We look to build a community of people that share our values and ambitions. We’re proud that 96% of our team say CMR is a “Great Place to Work” a reflection of our supportive culture, focus on people, and drive to do things differently.

Learn more here: https://cmr.london/who-we-are/

Requirements and Location

• Full right to work in the UK

• Hybrid / 2 Days in Suffolk

Salary & Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)

• Comprehensive Private Healthcare (Inc Dentist and Optician)

• Life Assurance (x4 Salary)

• Pension: employers' contribution of 4%

• Company and personal performance-based bonus

• Salary Sacrifice Scheme

• Long Service Leave

• Training and professional development

• Regular social events

• Perkbox – employee experience platform

CMR welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. CMR is Disability Confident Committed and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives