Planner

81579 - Planner

This Planner role will report to the Senior Engineering Manager and will work within UK Power Networks Services – Engineering based in our Elephant & Castle, London office. You will be a permanent employee.

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

Close Date: 23/11/2025

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Planner role is to support the Design team with managing the planning and programming process to meet our clients' programmes goals, including the provision of information and support on programme matters to the Pricing, Design, Engineering and construction teams.

Analyse planning and control requirements for the programme of works, making recommendations on the most appropriate use of the planning package. Support current with tender programmes, cost and resource loaded, business and client reporting requirements.

Work with the Design team to develop alternative proposals that satisfy the requirements of the programme of works. Offer advantages to the UKPN Services teams regarding competitive position and deliver the Programme of works to time and within the defined budget. Ensure risk mitigation and reduction through sound delivery / construction planning techniques and practices.

Main Accountabilities

• To co-ordinate and deliver planning programmes across all disciplines in the design team, and long term contract teams, as instructed
• Ensure planning is carried out for all projects including management of and adherence to important dates, milestones and outages.
• Attention to the detail with programme dependency, constraint, multi-stream and critical path analysis
• Establish adherence to procedure
• Maintain continuous improvement in programme processes
• Ensure programme monitoring and change control is exercised across all projects
• Establish an understanding of the contract documents, codes of practice, standards and specifications.
• Provide value added programme reporting at project, delivery team and business level
• Maintain financial and important resource capacity information to allow allocation of resource to tasks.
• Design, develop and introduce a process for Programme risk analysis.
• Ensure supply chain equipment manufacture milestones are incorporated into project programme with interrogation on dependencies and critical paths
• Support in develop cost and resource loaded tender programmes.

People

• A team player with the ability to work within a multinational, multicultural team.

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

Customer

• To hold and participate in planning reviews with Clients and internal departments
• To strengthen customer relationships through presentation and delivery of successful planning solutions.

Position Interactions

• Other Planners and planning teams for resourcing, domain knowledge, training and issues/conflict resolution
• Design, Engineering and Delivery functions
• Wider project teams incl. Project Managers, Planning, Tendering and Supply Chain

Challenges

• Customer satisfaction.
• Work to defined budgetary goals.
• Achieve successful implementation of planning solutions to the full satisfaction of all partners.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience using Primavera P6 planning software is essential, including the resource and cost loading.
• Planning experience in Rail infrastructure projects within the Rail industry or Utilities industry
• Experience in major infrastructure projects incorporating design, engineering, construction and commissioning functions.
• Experience in identification and escalation of the risks and issues.
• Degree in related engineering discipline or qualified by appropriate level of experience.
• Team player
• Strategic, customer and market orientation

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 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 where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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