Strategic Planning Manager – Major Water Projects

Alexander Associates Limited; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Associates Limited is seeking a Planning Manager to lead planning, integration, monitoring and control for major water projects in Kent, UK. The role focuses on delivering reliable schedules, coordinating across disciplines and stakeholders, and ensuring alignment with regulatory and commercial commitments.

The successful candidate will drive programme certainty, identify risks and opportunities, and provide clear, actionable information to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Experienced Planning Manager for major capital projects.
• Ability to develop and control integrated programme schedules.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and control integrated programme schedules across complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Ensure the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) aligns with objectives, milestones, contractual commitments, and delivery strategies.
• Review and challenge programme logic, sequencing, assumptions, and dependencies to ensure schedule accuracy.
• Identify programme gaps, interface issues, conflicts, and constraints that may impact delivery.
• Work with internal teams and external partners to resolve scheduling issues and ensure full programme integration.
• Maintain schedule integrity through design, pre-construction, delivery, and completion phases.
• Provide independent challenge on programme risks affecting milestones, budgets, regulatory obligations, or contractual commitments.
• Act as an early warning function by identifying critical path changes, float erosion, emerging delays, and interface risks.
• Monitor programme performance and identify delivery risks and trends.
• Escalate significant programme concerns, providing clear and actionable information to stakeholders.
• Translate complex schedule data into meaningful insights that support business decisions.
• Produce programme reports, dashboards, and updates for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Support scenario planning, forecasting, schedule modelling, and schedule risk assessments.
• Help stakeholders understand the impact of planning decisions and delivery risks.
• Work closely with programme managers, project managers, engineering, commercial, project controls, risk teams, and delivery partners.

Job description

Alexander Associates Limited is seeking a Planning Manager to lead planning, integration, monitoring and control for major water projects in Kent, UK. The role focuses on delivering reliable schedules, coordinating across disciplines and stakeholders, and ensuring alignment with regulatory and commercial commitments.

The successful candidate will drive programme certainty, identify risks and opportunities, and provide clear, actionable information to senior leadership.