Strategic Portfolio & Programme Scheduler — Flexible/Hybrid

AtkinsRéalis; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid working

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Consultant Programme and Project Planner in Secure Government to help enable maximum benefits from digital transformation. You will work with clients, suppliers and AtkinsRéalis teams to shape understanding and inform decisions, leading planning activities and delivering credible schedules across programmes and portfolios.

You will mentor colleagues, apply robust logic for milestones and dependencies, and support improvements across governance, risk and delivery

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on planning and scheduling experience in complex portfolio, programme or project environments.
• Experience with governance disciplines and management of delivery controls.
• Ability to lead workshops, build credible schedules and communicate outputs clearly.
• Mentoring or coaching colleagues to strengthen project management capabilities.
• Strong consultancy and stakeholder relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist consultancy on planning, scheduling and governance disciplines.
• Lead planning activities and resolve complex scheduling issues to shape client understanding.
• Build, maintain, analyse and assure integrated schedules at programme and portfolio levels.
• Mentor colleagues and share knowledge across teams to strengthen capability.
• Ensure schedule integration across waterfall, Agile and hybrid delivery environments.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Governance & controls

Workshop facilitation

Mentoring

Client advisory

Agile & hybrid delivery

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Jira

Job description

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Consultant Programme and Project Planner in Secure Government to help enable maximum benefits from digital transformation. You will work with clients, suppliers and AtkinsRéalis teams to shape understanding and inform decisions, leading planning activities and delivering credible schedules across programmes and portfolios.

You will mentor colleagues, apply robust logic for milestones and dependencies, and support improvements across governance, risk and delivery