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Job Posted: 20 days ago

Salary: £ 500 - 500 / Hour
Job Type: Contract
Location: Warwickshire

Expire in: 8 days

Job Description

Job Advert: PMO Planner - Electrical Transmission (Contract)

Location: Warwick (2 days onsite per week, remainder remote)

Contract Length: 6 months

Sector: Electrical Transmission / UK Energy Infrastructure

Start: ASAP

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced PMO Planner to support a portfolio of eight concurrent projects within a leading UK electricity transmission organisation. You'll play a key role in developing schedule foundations, maintaining high‑quality Microsoft Project plans, managing cross‑project dependencies, and supporting Project Managers to ensure alignment with planning standards and governance.

This is an opportunity to contribute to critical national infrastructure and help drive consistent, insight‑led planning across a busy engineering programme.

What You'll Do

Build complete Microsoft Project schedules from the ground up (WBS, logic, calendars, baselines).
Maintain and update eight live project plans, creating consistent views, filters, and reporting layouts.
Manage and track project dependencies across engineering, procurement, construction, outages, and commissioning.
Support Project Managers Day‑to‑day, ensuring plans remain accurate, governed, and aligned to PMO planning standards.
Analyse critical paths, identify slippage and risks, and support mitigation and recovery planning.
Extract data from MS Project and develop clear, insightful reports and dashboards in Excel or Power BI.
Provide portfolio‑level insight on milestones, schedule health, progress trends, and cross‑project impacts.
Ensure full adherence to planning frameworks, quality guidelines, and PMO governance processes. 

What We're Looking For

Strong experience as a Planner / PMO Planner / Project Controls professional.
Advanced Microsoft Project user capable of building logic‑driven schedules from scratch.
Skilled in dependency management, critical path analysis, and scenario ('what‑if') planning.
Comfortable working closely with Project Managers, coaching and supporting them on planning discipline.
Confident extracting, analysing, and presenting schedule data using Excel or Power BI.
Detail‑oriented, organised, and proactive in identifying risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities. 

Nice to Have

Experience in electrical transmission, utilities, energy, or other regulated infrastructure programmes.
Understanding of outage planning, commissioning, and engineering lifecycle stages.
Familiarity with Project Online, Project for the Web, or SharePoint.
APM/PRINCE2/PMO certifications. 

Working Pattern

Hybrid: 2 days per week onsite in Warwick, remainder remote.
Occasional travel to engineering sites or project offices. 

Interested?

If you're passionate about high‑quality planning, logical scheduling, and supporting delivery teams in a fast‑paced engineering environment, we'd love to hear from you.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and passion into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an all-encompassing environment that helps them thrive.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunity's employer.

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