Senior Planner
Position: Senior Planner
Location: Peterborough with hybrid working available
Salary Guide: £60-70k (neg DOE), car/allowance, and excellent benefits
Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a number of water and wastewater non-infrastructure projects for Anglian Water through the @one Alliance.
The Role: Our client is looking to strengthen their Planning team with a Senior Planner for the Anglian Water Region. Whilst leading and developing a team towards planning excellence, you'll ensure the project plan and programme are kept on track with any mitigating circumstances successfully overcome. By using your knowledge and expertise in planning, you'll build the trust and confidence of key stakeholder by delivering project updates backed up by value- added data which can contribute to delivery improvements as they progress.
Responsibilities: Develop and maintain robust project plans aligned with @one Alliance and Anglian Water standards.
Provide strategic insights, ensuring resource alignment and risk mitigation.
Communicate key project milestones and progress to stakeholders.
Drive a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Champion health, safety, and wellbeing across all planning activities.
Experience: Proven experience in planning major projects, ideally within the water or civil engineering sector.
Strong expertise in Primavera P6 and collaborative planning processes. Leadership experience in managing and developing planning teams.
Excellent communication skills to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
Passion for innovation, problem-solving, and strategic decision-making.
Knowledge of the NEC contract and programme requirements.
Good understanding of Construction, Civil Engineering and M&E activity.
Minimum 5 years planning experience.
Possess sound understanding of planning skills and programming.
Excellent written contractual communication.
Excellent verbal communication.
Excellent knowledge of planning systems.
Good coaching and leadership skills.
Strong commercial awareness.
Package includes: A competitive salary
Car/car allowance (subject to role and level of position)
Bonus (subject to role and level of position)
25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
Contribution Pension scheme
Life Assurance
Health Insurance
Private medical Insurance
And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc
Key Words:
Planning Engineer
Planner
Project Planner
Senior Planner
Senior Planning Engineer
Senior Project Planner
Construction
Project Programmes
P6 Programmes
Project Delivery
Project Plans
Water Industry
Water Sector
Water Treatment
Clean Water
Sewage
Wastewater
Waste Water
Utilities
Highways
Power
Energy
Nuclear
Energy from Waste
Rail
Infrastructure
Primavera
P6
Severn Trent Water
Anglian Water
Thames Water
Staffordshire Water
Veolia
AMP 7
AMP 8
NEC