Project Planner

We're hiring a
Project Planner
to strengthen schedule control across our project portfolio. This role is accountable for building, maintaining, and governing integrated project schedules that give leadership a clear, data-driven view of delivery confidence, risk, and what's needed to hit key milestones.

You'll work closely with Project Managers, Engineering/Delivery teams, Procurement, and Commercial/Contracts to drive planning discipline, identify pinch points early, and keep delivery on track.

Key responsibilities (what you'll do)

• Own the project planning cadence: create and manage baseline schedules, update cycles, and reporting rhythms.
• Build high-quality integrated schedules using a structured WBS, logic links, realistic durations, and explicit assumptions.
• Run planning workshops with SMEs to validate scope, sequencing, dependencies, constraints, and milestone logic.
• Maintain schedule integrity: monitor critical path/near-critical paths, float erosion, constraints, and logic quality.
• Progress tracking & forecasting: collect progress updates, validate % completes, and produce forward-looking projections.
• Produce decision-grade outputs: milestone plans, lookaheads (2–6 weeks), variance analysis, "what-if" scenarios, and recovery plans.
• Support change control: assess schedule impacts of scope changes, variations, or slippage; maintain auditable schedule versions.
• Risk & opportunities integration: highlight schedule risks early and help teams mitigate through sequencing/resource solutions.
• Resource/capacity visibility (where applicable): support resource loading, levelling, and delivery feasibility checks.
• Stakeholder management: translate complex schedules into clear, executive-ready insights and actions.

What you'll bring (must-have)

• Proven experience as a Project Planner / Scheduler / Project Controls Planner across multiple projects (portfolio exposure is a plus).
• Strong working knowledge of critical path method (CPM), baselining, progress measurement, and schedule forecasting.
• Hands-on scheduling tool capability (one or more):
• Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project (plus strong Excel skills as a minimum)
• Ability to cut through ambiguity, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive alignment on a workable plan.
• Comfortable operating with senior stakeholders, crisp communication, structured thinking, and pragmatic problem-solving.
• Strong attention to detail (data quality matters) with a bias toward actionable reporting, not "pretty plans."

Nice to have (adds leverage)

• Power BI/dashboards, automated reporting, or data-driven PMO tooling.
• Earned Value/performance measurement experience (where relevant).
• Schedule quality checks / planning governance frameworks.
• Certifications (mandatory): PMI-SP, PMP, PRINCE2, APM.

What success looks like (first 90 days)

• Schedules are credible, current, and decision-useful (not shelfware).
• PMs and delivery leads are aligned on dependencies, constraints, and milestone logic.
• Risks and slippage are surfaced early with clear recovery options.
• Reporting is consistent, automated where possible, and trusted by stakeholders.

Why join

• Real delivery influence: planning is treated as a control function, not admin.
• Exposure to varied projects and senior stakeholders.
• Flexible engagement: permanent or contract, we'll hire the best fit.

How to apply

Send your CV via LinkedIn or email.:

• Your availability/notice period
• Your preference (perm or contract)
• If contract: day rate expectation and working location preferences
• Key tools used (P6 / MSP / Power BI / etc.) and examples of project types you've planned