Senior Project Planner

M Group Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

M Group Ltd is seeking a skilled Planner to join their Electricity Transmission team, working on National Grid projects across the UK. This hybrid role requires managing construction schedules and collaborating with teams to ensure the smooth delivery of infrastructure projects. Successful candidates will enjoy a supportive work environment with opportunities for growth and development, alongside a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service, 24/7

Employee assistance programme

Access to retail discounts

Life assurance

Salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme

Private health care for you and your family

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Recommend a friend bonus

Qualifications

• Experience working with Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project.
• Experience of earned value management and NEC contracts.
• Experience in the energy sector or major infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage construction schedules.
• Collaborate with delivery teams and attend client meetings.
• Provide planning expertise for competitive bids.

Skills

Planning

Resource Management

Subcontractor Management

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in afriendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Electricity Transmission team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

Want to come and be a part of it?

Where will you be working?

Are you ready to join a growing team of 5 Planners, working on National Grid substation projects across the UK?

This hybrid role offers flexibility to work from home, with at least two days a week in our Solihull or Nottingham offices, allowing you to collaborate and spend valuable time with your team! You’ll need to travel to site also so a driving licence is needed for this role.

What will you be doing?

Are you a skilled planner with a passion for creating and improving construction schedules?

Your expertise will be vital to our success! We’re looking for someone who excels at managing resources and subcontractors and who enjoys being involved in every stage of the project, working closely with the site delivery team and attending client meetings, from initial planning to final handover.

In this role, you will also collaborate with our bid team, offering your planning expertise to make our bids competitive and accurate.

Your ability to collect benchmarking data for value assessments and manage risk, issue, and opportunity registers will be highly valued.

If you are passionate about exploring new planning techniques and technologies and can lead a change agenda for business improvement, we’d love to have you on our team!

What you’ll bring

• Experience working with Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project
• Experience of earned value management, NEC contractsandchange management process.
• If you have worked in theenergy sector, then that would be great! However, if you experience working on any major infrastructure projects, we would love to hear from you!

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for youand your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’reresponsibleand go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’reopenand seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’retogetherand as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’reambitiousand embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note:Occasionally, we may close job adverts before the stated closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3^rdparty background checks as part of our hiring process. Some of our roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of our induction.

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