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Project Planner

Job Posted: 6 days ago

Salary: £ 45,000 - 48,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Stone,Staffordshire

Expire in: 22 days

Job Description

Planner

About IEIS

IEIS is a specialist engineering services business working across water, utilities, energy, and petrochemical sectors. Set up nine years ago and growing rapidly, they deliver projects spanning weeks through to years -- from pipe and steel design and fabrication through to full installation. They're a medium-sized business with a family feel, where people grow with the company rather than getting managed from above it.

The Role

This is a newly created permanent Planner position, brought in to strengthen the core team as IEIS moves away from relying solely on contractors. You'll work across all live projects -- short-burst reactive work and longer multi-month programmes -- reporting directly into the operational leadership team. The measure of success in this role isn't just keeping programmes up to date; it's knowing what's coming before anyone else does and making sure the business can act on it.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll:

Prepare and maintain baseline, tender, and contract programmes compliant with NEC, IChemE, and EPC/ME&I contracts

Own the Accepted / Approved Programme and keep it aligned with contractual obligations and change mechanisms

Manage an integrated business-wide programme linking all project programmes to give directors visibility of time, cost, and resource

Demonstrate critical path, float, constraints, and assumptions across live programmes

Support Early Warnings, Compensation Events, variations, and Extension of Time submissions

Assess time impact of design changes, late information, access restrictions, and third-party delay

Produce progress reports, dashboards, and programme narratives for internal and client use

Maintain rolling lookahead programmes to support site delivery teams

Flag issues before they become problems -- proactively, not reactively

What You'll Bring

Essential:

Proven experience planning ME&I, utilities, energy, or process projects

Strong working knowledge of NEC and IChemE contract mechanisms

Proficiency in Primavera P6 or ASTA

Solid background supporting EOTs, claims, and change control processes

Ability to produce time impact analyses and programme narratives to a contractual standard

Useful, not essential:

Experience working across multiple sectors simultaneously (water, energy, petrochemical)

Familiarity with integrated business-level programme reporting

Previous experience in a growing SME environment

Benefits & Culture

Financial: Salary up to £48,000 DOE | Company pension scheme

Flexibility: Hybrid working - 3 days at head office, 2 days from home

Development: As IEIS grows, you grow. The plan is that you build a team beneath you - not that someone gets promoted over you

Day-to-day: On-site parking | A team that moves fast and values people who think ahead

Working Arrangements

Location: IEIS Head Office | Hybrid: 3 days on-site, 2 from home

Contract: Permanent | Full-time

Projects: Mix of short-burst and long-span programmes across water, utilities, energy, and petrochemical sectors

How to Apply

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