About the role
Bristol or Manchester (minimum 2 days in the office)
Shape the future of one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects.
Balfour Beatty, as part of the MEH Alliance on the Sizewell C project, is looking for an experienced Senior Planner to play a pivotal role in the early-stage development of this major nuclear infrastructure programme.
This is a unique opportunity to influence how the project is planned, controlled and delivered—helping to establish the baseline that will underpin successful delivery for years to come.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Planner, you’ll take ownership of developing and refining project schedules, ensuring they provide a robust foundation for delivery. You’ll work closely with project managers, suppliers and stakeholders across both client and internal teams to drive performance and alignment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and maintaining detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 or MS Project
- Establishing sequencing, logic, and planning methodologies to support delivery
- Supporting the development of a robust project controls baseline for tracking and reporting
- Collaborating with stakeholders to gather progress data and communicate key schedule insights
- Identifying risks and leading mitigation planning through forward planning and scenario analysis
- Producing regular reports including progress, performance metrics, and forecast impacts
- Resource loading and producing profiles to support delivery planning
- Supporting change control processes and assessing impacts on programme and milestones
- Integrating supplier schedules and ensuring alignment with the overall MEH programme
Who we're looking for
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline
- MAPM or equivalent professional accreditation desirable
- Proven experience as a Senior Planner on large, complex infrastructure projects
- Strong expertise in Primavera P6 and project scheduling best practice
- Experience developing schedules in early-stage project environments
- Strong understanding of project controls, including earned value management (EVM)
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to gain a security clearance
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.
About us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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Job Reference: BBUK19779
