Senior/Lead Planner

A Senior Project Planner is a senior-level professional role in the Planning discipline of the Delivery role family. This role requires in-depth knowledge, expertise and multiple years experience of professional practice within this discipline. This role undertakes complex and non-routine professional assignments with minimal supervision and may provide leadership to more junior roles.

Your responsibilities

As a Senior Planner, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of our Nuclear Power Station programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Developing and maintaining detailed construction and installation schedules using Primavera P6.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to gather project data and ensure schedule accuracy.
• Tracking progress, identifying potential delays and recommending actions to maintain programme performance.
• Supporting risk assessments, scenario planning and change control activities to assess schedule impacts.
• Preparing schedule performance reports and communicating planning insights to key stakeholders.

Required skills

Essential experience of the Senior Planner:

• Extensive experience using Primavera P6, including advanced planning and scheduling capabilities.
• Experience within nuclear project planning or similarly complex regulated environments.
• Demonstrating strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Building effective relationships with stakeholders through excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Understanding project controls disciplines, including schedule, cost and risk integration.

Qualifications for the Senior Planner:

Demonstrable planning and scheduling expertise gained within major infrastructure, engineering or nuclear projects.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.