Water Project Planning Engineer

Arcadis; West of England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Planning Engineer to join our Water Optimisation team delivering AMP8 projects across clean and wastewater schemes. The role focuses on earned value management, resource requirements, and forecasting to optimise delivery performance.

You will work with portfolio leads, discipline leads and stakeholders to mature planning capability and strengthen financial and schedule control, supporting tendering activities and bid accuracy.

Qualifications

• Extensive planning & scheduling experience in major infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice on earned value management and resourcing to project teams and leadership.
• Develop and embed planning governance, processes and tools to standardise delivery across tender, project and portfolio levels.
• Manage integrated baseline programmes, WBS and schedule hierarchies aligned with scope, milestones and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee schedule health checks, variance analysis and re-forecast actions to improve predictability.
• Produce timely reports on schedule performance, earned value, resource utilisation and cost forecasts for senior leadership.
• Support portfolio planning with resource forecasts and capacity planning to aid recruitment and deployment.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Commercial awareness

Education

Engineering degree or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Safran

Job description

Arcadis is seeking a Planning Engineer to join our Water Optimisation team delivering AMP8 projects across clean and wastewater schemes. The role focuses on earned value management, resource requirements, and forecasting to optimise delivery performance.

You will work with portfolio leads, discipline leads and stakeholders to mature planning capability and strengthen financial and schedule control, supporting tendering activities and bid accuracy.