Project Planner

**Role: Project Planner**
**Location: Leeds**

**Overview**

Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialist offering a broad range of professional services. Through our work, we believe we make a positive difference in our world. As a wholly independent organisation, we are owned in trust for the benefit of our employees and their dependants: with no shareholders or external investors determine our own business priorities and direction.

Due to continued business growth and development of the Advisory sector, Arup has a new role for a Project Planner (scheduler) to join our busy group. You will work as a Project Planner and develop programmes (schedules) in P6 and MS Project as directed by the Project Manager or the needs of the project team.

You may work on one key project at a time for a long period or have multiple projects and be moved over to the next serving our business requirements, this will mean working on different project and possibly involve travel to different locations for on-site meetings.

You will be involved in projects across Arup UK which can include large public infrastructure projects relating to roads, highways and rail as well as building structures in the commercial and healthcare sectors.

You will support the growth of the Project Controls team by ensuring collaborative working with the team and delivering work to the correct standards expected of this role and seniority.

**The role**

In conjunction with senior members across multidisciplinary teams, the requirements are as follows:

- Provide Project Planning support to delivery teams in the following areas:

- Procurement
- Change Control
- Actions / Issues management
- Cost Management
- Contract and Procurement Management

It is essential that you possess strong written and verbal communication skills as well as an open minded and team orientated approach. Strong analytical skills and a pro-active methodical mind-set are essential for success within this detail-orientated environment.

**Essential Skills and Qualifications**
- Expert in Primavera P6 and Microsoft office suites
- Good working knowledge of NEC contracts or similar
- Has diverse planning expertise and project knowledge against a range of industries i.e. Environmental, Rail, Highways, Construction, Nuclear
- Has experience in reading tenders, contract and project control documentation to extract the necessary information to build a programme to client specifications.
- Co-ordinate and complete schedule progress updates in accordance with client deadlines and write accompanying programme narratives.
- Ability to co-ordinate and lead a project team to create a robust, logically linked, resource, cost loaded schedule from scratch

**Desirable Skills and Qualifications**
- Professional Certifications relating to planning
- Graduate level qualifications in a relevant construction / engineering discipline
- Membership of recognised professional institutions.

**Rewards and Benefits**
We offer a competitive salary at all levels, and one of the best benefits packages in our sector.

Core benefits include cover under the UK Healthcare Plan (private medical insurance), Life Assurance, Accident Insurance, and Income Protection (long term disability) cover. Core benefits are funded by us and made available to all permanent staff in order to support and safeguard your financial, physical, and mental wellbeing. You will also have access to Choice Benefits to help with your work/life balance and financial security.

In addition, all permanent employees are eligible for the Global Profit Share scheme. Subject to scheme rules employees can receive two Profit Share payments per year, which are dependent on the firm’s financial performance.

**Different people, shared values.**

At Arup, we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. Arup hires people with proven skills and open minds. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world.

At Arup, we appreciate that everyone’s circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply, and we will discuss how this could work in your role.

**What happens next?**

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