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Senior Planner
Various Locations Available
Planning work that matters
When a complex infrastructure project is at stake, planning is not just a process. It is a deciding factor. Schedules shape budgets, risks, delivery paths and client confidence.
This organisation supports major programmes across the UK’s critical infrastructure, including defence, nuclear, energy and transport. As a Senior Planner, you will join a trusted planning function that works at the centre of high value projects, where structured thinking and timely insight make a real difference.
Your role in the project
You will manage full schedule development and performance tracking using Primavera P6, with responsibility for:
Building and maintaining detailed, logic linked schedules
Leading baseline control, progress updates and critical path reviews
Producing integrated outputs across cost, risk and time
Supporting workshops, stakeholder reviews and reporting cycles
Driving EVM analysis and scenario planning to support decisions
What you bring
You have worked on complex infrastructure projects, ideally within defence or nuclear, and bring experience in:
Primavera P6 and earned value reporting
NEC or similar contractual environments
Communicating effectively across delivery and commercial teams
Understanding how planning links with cost and risk
Environment and progression
You will join a collaborative team that values planning as a core technical discipline. There is structured progression, support for further development and the opportunity to move between sectors.
This is a hybrid role with some site attendance expected, depending on location.
This is a permanent role.
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV or details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client’s site, this vacancy is only open to British Citizens
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