Project Planner

81752 - Project Planner

This Project Planner will report to the Client Delivery Manager and will work within UKPN Services – Client Delivery based in our Aldershot office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £65,241 plus car and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 08/01/2026

We also provide the following additional benefits

Job Purpose

Drive and deliver the schedule and planning activity within the Defence sector and wider PMO. Support the Programme Manager, team members and Project Managers in managing the project delivery schedules of all projects, and the coordination of these projects into a sub-programme of works.

Provide schedule impact assessment information to support the project and portfolio change control and risk processes. Validate suppliers schedule impact assessment submissions to support the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers' contract baselines.

Principal Accountabilities

• Work with the Programme Managers, Project Managers and suppliers, to ensure approved contract baseline schedules are established and maintained (following Contract Change procedure)

• Apply project controls and NEC best practice / contract governance processes

• Manage project key milestones, dependencies and risk

• Manage project activity with P6 planners within the Services Teams.

• Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, schedule logic, float allocation and critical path identification within suppliers' submissions to support UK Power Networks contract programme approval obligations.

• Maintain schedules in Primavera P6 and consistency / alignment with approved UK Power Networks Services WBS/OBS

• Manage others to maintain P6 schedules to the required standard

• Provide accurate Programme data to meet UK Power Network Services reporting requirements supporting Earned Value Management reporting.

• Maintain currency of Programme plans and schedules at Level 4 and below where not assigned to a third-party (supplier)

• Support / facilitate schedule risk analysis on a periodic basis.

• Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates.

• Work with Risk Managers and programme teams to identify and incorporate risk mitigating actions into the planned work scope and to incorporate appropriate time/cost contingency levels across the baseline schedules.

• Lead/facilitate collaborative planning workshops and provide presentations, coaching and facilitation in the use of Primavera software.

• Achieve compliance with UK Power Network Services project delivery and programme/programme governance procedures.

• Identify, control and forecast the time scales and resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time overruns.

• Co-ordinating the flow of information to ensure that interfaces within projects are effectively managed to improve efficiencies

• Oversee the progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies

• Manage a database to capture and identify work rate norms and trends, earned value and performance indicators

• Manage support for colleagues in project teams

• Obtain agreement to the schedule from project teams and co-ordinate schedule interfaces between the different control areas

• Work with the project cost/ risk engineer and estimator to provide a seamless service

Organisation

• Will be focused on value planning, ensuring full consultation with all planning partners

• Work toward continuous improvement in implementation standards and costs

• Develop plans which eliminate and reduce risks and maximise resource efficiency

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications:

• Engineering-based degree or equivalent is desirable project management qualification (such as APMP or Prince2) and experience maintaining programme performance baselines and their utilisation in generating earned value based management information

• Experience of complex construction programmes using Primavera P6 within multi-disciplined environments would be beneficial.

Experience:

• Management experience on Major Projects

• Excellent technical skills

• Ensure effective communication to all levels to both internal and external personnel

• Good oral, written and presentational skills with expertise in the presentation of data for analysis and review

• Familiarity with standard office software including Project, PowerPoint, Access, Excel and Outlook Competence and significant experience with P6 planning software specifically

• Work with team to obtain information and commitment to formulating schedule whilst commanding respect from all partners through technical and personal credibility

Nature and Scope

Manage scheduling activity for specific sub-programmes and coordinating and driving the input of Programme Manager's and Project Manager's to ensure that those schedules are accurate and up to date. Provide schedule impact assessment information to support the project/portfolio change control and risk processes. Validation of suppliers' schedule impact assessment submissions to support the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers' contract baselines.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they fully understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and particularly where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

Employees need to be aware that for some craft and operational roles that work at height, or use fall arrest devices, there is an upper weight limit of 116Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used.

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If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.