Planning Lead - DC Construction

Linesight; Groningen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Linesight is seeking a Planning Lead in the DC Sector to develop and manage integrated project schedules, ensuring alignment with execution, procurement, and control strategies. The role requires strong leadership and communication with clients and suppliers.

You will lead meetings, baselining, and progress reporting, applying EVM principles when needed, and contributing CQV experience where required. A background in construction planning is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in construction planning and scheduling.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 for detailed scheduling.
• Excellent communication and meeting facilitation.
• Degree or equivalent in PM, Construction, or Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead project priorities, deadlines, and client engagements.
• Develop end-to-end schedules using critical path method.
• Align schedules with execution, procurement, and control strategies.
• Establish schedule baselining and ongoing updates.
• Lead meetings with clients and suppliers to discuss timelines.
• Deliver progress reports highlighting variances and risks.
• Review supplier and third-party schedules for alignment.
• Apply EVM knowledge to track schedule and cost when required.
• CQV process experience is required for some projects.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Leadership

Communication

Quantitative Risk Assessment

Education

Degree in PM/Construction/Engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Earned Value Management

Job description

Overview

As aPlanning Lead in the DC Sector at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams. You will have a strong background in construction planning and will be responsible for developing and managing fully integrated project schedules while ensuring alignment with execution, procurement, and control strategies. The role requires exceptional communication and leadership skills to effectively collaborate with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Lead project priorities, deadlines, and client engagements.
• Develop detailed, end-to-end project schedules using critical path methodology, covering full project scope, milestones, and timelines.
• Apply Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) methodology to define roles, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Align all scheduling with the project execution plan, contracting, procurement, and control strategies.
• Establish a robust method for schedule baselining and manage ongoing updates.
• Maintain a fully integrated project schedule viewable at multiple levels of detail and abstraction.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with both clients and suppliers to discuss timelines, progress, and dependencies.
• Negotiate and resolve interdisciplinary and inter-party schedule conflicts to achieve optimal outcomes for the client.
• Deliver regular progress reports to stakeholders, highlighting variances, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Review and validate supplier and third-party schedules, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
• Apply working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) to support integrated schedule and cost performance tracking, when required.
• Experience of CQV process is required for some projects.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• Extensive experience in construction project planning and scheduling.
• Proficiency in using Primavera P6 to build, manage, and analyse project schedules.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and can convey complex schedule data in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
• Confidence leading meetings and are able to command attention, facilitate productive discussions, and drive decisions.
• Demonstratable experience with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), including the ability to interpret and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Excellent technical understanding of planning processes in complex, high-value construction projects.
• A degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, or a related field.

About us

Linesight isa highly successfulglobal project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You seewe’renot like the others.We’redifferent. Unique.It’sour fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity,inclusionand accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability areprovidedreasonable accommodation toparticipatein the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If yourequireassistanceor accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!