Senior Project Planner - Environment and Energy in Manchester

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Due to a rapidly growing portfolio of projects across our Environment and Energy business, an exciting opportunity has opened for a Senior Planner to join us! You will provide project scheduling, programme controls expertise, and technical support across AECOM’s Environment & Energy portfolio, supporting the successful delivery of complex infrastructure, energy transition, and environmental projects. The role is responsible for developing, managing, and maintaining integrated project schedules, coordinating delivery programmes, monitoring performance, and providing high-quality programme management insight to project teams, clients, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Develop, manage, and maintain integrated project schedules for complex environmental, energy, and infrastructure projects.
• Establish and maintain baseline programmes, including work breakdown structures, logic sequencing, key milestones, dependencies, and critical path analysis.
• Support project teams with programme development, progress measurement, forecasting, and schedule updates.
• Monitor progress against approved programmes, identifying variance, trends, delays, and opportunities for improvement.
• Identify critical activities, delivery risks, constraints, and required mitigation actions.
• Prepare programme reports, dashboards, and schedule analysis to support project decision-making.
• Support change control activities through assessment of programme impacts, mitigation measures, and recovery planning.
• Provide schedule input into project bids, proposals, and business development activities.

Support Project Managers and Delivery Leads with effective programme management and project controls. Maintain accurate project schedule information and ensure timely reporting of progress, performance, and forecast outcomes. Support progress reporting and continuous improvement of project planning processes. Work collaboratively with engineering, environmental, commercial, and delivery teams to improve programme certainty and project outcomes.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience in project scheduling, programme management, or project controls within infrastructure, energy, or environmental sectors.
• Experience developing and managing integrated project schedules using recognised planning tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of project delivery lifecycles, programme controls, and risk management principles.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary project environments.
• Strong analytical, organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Ideally you'll have:

• A Degree qualification in Engineering, Environment, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Experience working within NEC contract environments, including programme management requirements, change control processes, early warnings, compensation events, and contract programme submissions.
• Experience supporting projects within sectors such as renewable energy and energy transition, including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), data centres, critical infrastructure, grid infrastructure, and utilities.
• Environmental delivery programmes, including projects involving Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) requirements.
• Major infrastructure consenting programmes, including Development Consent Orders (DCO).
• Decarbonisation and sustainability initiatives.
• Experience with earned value management, schedule risk analysis, progress measurement, and project controls reporting.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary engineering and environmental delivery teams.
• Commercial awareness and experience supporting client-facing project delivery.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too. Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

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