Senior Project Planner

Lord Search & Selection; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 67,500 - 82,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid overtime

Extensive benefits package

Job summary

Lord Search & Selection is seeking an experienced Senior Project Planner to lead scheduling and project controls on major UK engineering programmes from Warwick, with hybrid working and UK-wide travel.

You will partner with Project Managers and engineering teams to keep complex portfolios on track, applying EVM, CP analysis, and forecasting, while delivering meaningful reports to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex engineering projects.
• Experience in project controls and scheduling.
• Ability to report to senior stakeholders and support decision making.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage complex project schedules across multiple engineering programmes.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to reflect progress and delivery commitments.
• Identify schedule risks and recovery opportunities.
• Apply Earned Value Management, CP analysis, and forecasting techniques.
• Produce meaningful project reporting for commercial and operational decisions.
• Support change management and schedule recovery.
• Coach teams on planning best practice.

Skills

Scheduling

Earned Value Management

Critical Path Analysis

Project Forecasting

MS Project

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Location - Warwick - Hybrid with UK wide travel

Salary - Up to £75,000 p.a. + Paid Overtime + Extensive benefits package

Shape the delivery of some of the UK's most complex engineering and automation projects.

We're retained by a global engineering organisation to appoint an experienced Senior Project Planner who can bring real project delivery expertise to a highly visible role within a major programme delivery team. This is far more than a planning position.

We're looking for someone who has actually delivered complex engineering projects and understands the realities of keeping major programmes on track. Whether your background is as a Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Programme Manager, Project Controls Manager or Lead Planner, you'll know what good delivery looks like-and more importantly, how to recover projects when things don't go to plan.

You'll become a trusted advisor to senior project teams, influencing delivery strategy, challenging assumptions and providing the insight needed to improve project performance across a portfolio of large-scale engineering programmes.

The Opportunity

Working across multiple high-value projects, you'll take ownership of programme scheduling and project controls, partnering closely with Project Managers, engineering teams and key stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently and on time.

This is an opportunity to join a genuinely world-class engineering business delivering technically challenging projects where your expertise will directly influence commercial success and customer satisfaction.

What You'll Be Doing

• Developing and managing complex project schedules across multiple engineering programmes.
• Working alongside Project Managers to ensure plans accurately reflect project progress and delivery commitments.
• Identifying schedule risks, critical path issues and recovery opportunities before they impact delivery.
• Applying project controls techniques including Earned Value Management (EVM), Critical Path Analysis and schedule forecasting.
• Producing meaningful project reporting that enables informed commercial and operational decisions.
• Supporting change management, schedule recovery and project performance improvement.
• Coaching project teams on planning best practice and driving continuous improvement across project delivery.

About You

You'll bring first-hand experience of delivering complex projects and understand the commercial and operational pressures faced by project teams. We're particularly interested in individuals who have worked as:

• Project Manager
• Senior Project Manager
• Project Controls Manager
• Senior Planner
• Lead Scheduler

You'll ideally have experience within sectors such as:

• Automation
• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Oil & Gas
• Infrastructure

You'll be comfortable working with Microsoft Project and have strong knowledge of project controls methodologies including Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Management and project forecasting.

Most importantly, you'll possess the confidence and credibility to challenge senior stakeholders, influence decision-making and help deliver successful project outcomes.

What's on Offer

• Highly competitive salary
• Performance-related bonus
• Genuine career development within a global engineering organisation
• Exposure to major, technically challenging engineering programmes
• Long-term progression opportunities

Desired Skills and Experience

Automation, Robotics, PLC, Warehousing, 3PL, Logistics, Production, Manufacturing, Engineering, Industrial, Projects, Programmes, Program, Planning, ERP, Planner, Project