Senior Project Planner - Remote, Travel + Bonus

Electus Recruitment Solutions; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 10%

Pension contribution 7.5% matched

Home-based working

Job summary

Electus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Project Planner to own schedules within complex client programmes. The role is home-based with travel to UK client sites, requiring independent work and strong client relationships.

You will create and maintain detailed schedules, manage baselines, resource and cost loading, dependencies and critical path, using Primavera P6 daily for planning and reporting in a consultancy environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive project planning and scheduling experience.

Responsibilities

• Creating, maintaining and controlling detailed project schedules.
• Taking ownership of schedule quality, accuracy and integrity.
• Establishing and maintaining schedule baselines.
• Carrying out resource loading and cost loading.
• Managing dependencies, milestones and critical path activity.
• Working with project stakeholders to gather updates and challenge incomplete or unrealistic inputs.
• Producing clear planning information to support reporting and decision-making.
• Using Primavera P6 as part of day‑to‑day planning activity.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Client liaison

Travel flexibility

Education

APM Fundamentals

MRICS

P6 Practitioner

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Electus Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior Project Planner to own schedules within complex client programmes. The role is home-based with travel to UK client sites, requiring independent work and strong client relationships.

You will create and maintain detailed schedules, manage baselines, resource and cost loading, dependencies and critical path, using Primavera P6 daily for planning and reporting in a consultancy environment.