Senior Planning Engineer

Skanska; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global construction company is seeking a Senior Planner to join their Infrastructure team in Wolverhampton. You will lead the development of project planning, ensuring it meets stakeholders’ needs while identifying risks and facilitating solutions. The role requires experience in the civils industry, ideally on RDP framework projects. Key responsibilities include guiding the project team and enhancing planning standards. This position offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in the civils industry, ideally with RDP framework projects.
• Familiarity with planning methods and progress monitoring.
• Technical understanding of engineering principles and construction best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and update the project contract programme for quality.
• Identify risks and assist the project team in solutions.
• Review supplier programmes to ensure planning standards are met.
• Guide the professional development of Planners and Assistant Planners.
• Focus on project milestones and dependencies.

Skills

Experience in the civils industry

Knowledge of RDP framework projects

Planning and programming knowledge

Construction techniques understanding

Job description

General information

City/town: Wolverhampton
Job field: Construction
External closing date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Type of contract: Permanent ID: 5217

Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

We are looking for a Senior Planner to join our Infrastructure team in Wolverhampton.

What you'll do:

• Lead the development and updating of the main project contract programme, ensuring it is of a high quality so that the programme suits the Project’s, Skanska’s and the Client’s needs.
• Interpret the plan to identify risk, mitigations and assist the project team to implement solutions which will eliminate reasons for delay & drive efficiencies.
• Review supplier's programmes alongside the rest of the project team, ensuring that they align with the required planning standards and project requirements / dates. Provides assistance and guidance to suppliers as necessary.
• Assist with the professional development of Planners and Assistant Planners.
• Focussing the project team’s delivery against key project milestones by explaining the key drivers and follow-on dependencies to ensure delivery to plan.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Experience in the civils industry, ideally having worked on an RDP framework project in the Highways industry in a planning role.
• Experience of various methods of planning, programming, and progress monitoring ideally working for a Tier 1 construction contractor.
• Construction experience and technical understanding of engineering principles, construction techniques and best practices
• Understanding of various forms of construction documents, contracts and specifications.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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