Senior Technical Planner

Mott Macdonald; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm in the UK is looking for a Senior Technical Planner to join their Nuclear, Defence and Civil team. This role involves managing detailed project schedules, ensuring effective communication with stakeholders, and applying Earned Value principles. Ideal candidates will have expertise in project planning tools like Primavera P6 and a strong commitment to quality and safety standards. With a hybrid working model, the successful applicant can contribute toward significant infrastructure projects shaping the UK's energy landscape.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Flexible holiday options

Enhanced family leave policies

Professional development opportunities

Wellbeing support programs

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and developing detailed resourced schedules.
• Strong communication skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and innovations in project planning.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of schedules ensuring clear communication of outputs.
• Apply Earned Value (EV) principles and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with project managers to ensure project success.

Skills

Planning

Communication

Stakeholder Engagement

Problem Solving

Presentation Skills

Education

Member of a recognized professional body (APM, ACostE, or similar)

Tools

Primavera P6

Bentley Synchro

Job description

Position Overview

We're looking for a Senior Technical Planner to join our Nuclear; Defence and Civil team, supporting some of the UK's most significant and complex infrastructure programmes. These are long‑term, high‑impact projects that offer the opportunity to be part of something meaningful, shaping the future of the UK's energy and defence landscape. As a Senior Planner, you'll play a key role in ensuring projects are effectively planned and delivered. You'll be central to driving clarity and structure across our programmes, working closely with the Project Managers, technical and commercial teams to ensure timelines, risks, and resources are all aligned. Planning is the driving force behind our project success. In this role, you'll make an immediate impact, working closely with a team of skilled planners to ensure consistency in processes and protect the commercial and delivery interests of the business. From day one, your contribution will be visible and influential.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of schedules ensuring clear communication of outputs to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ensure schedules comply with procedures and best practices.
• Apply Earned Value (EV) principles, analyse variances, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with lead and management roles to ensure project success.
• Optimise schedule structures and implement improvements.
• Apply change control measures (ideally within the NEC contract model).
• Conduct schedule integrity checks, assess critical paths, and communicate key issues.
• Work closely with cost engineers, project managers, and control managers to underpin EACs.
• Develop and maintain resource‑loaded schedules, applying rules of credit where required.
• Use Bentley Synchro, Primavera P6, and BIM models to create and present detailed project plans.
• Ensure project plans capture full scope, identify risks and opportunities, and uphold Health & Safety standards.
• Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

Required Experience and Skills

• Experience in planning, developing detailed resourced schedules, and applying EV techniques on engineering projects.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 and managing a portfolio of schedules.
• Strong communication skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and innovations in project planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Confident in presenting to external stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.
• Preferably a member of a recognised professional body (APM, ACostE, or similar).

Country‑Specific Information

UK Immigration Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in the future.

Working Arrangement

Agile working: At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well‑being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return‑to‑work support due to long‑term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
• A minimum of 33‑35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years' service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

About Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

The Energy Unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.