Project Planner - Nuclear

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are looking for a Planning Engineer to join our Nuclear Consultancy business supporting some of the UK's largest Nuclear work. The projects combine both new build and decommissioning within a structured collaborative environment working with colleagues who are focused on innovative solutions and teamwork where the focus is on delivery of programme outputs.

As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you'll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you'll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

The role sits within our global business area Resilience. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Development of schedules for inclusion in the baseline and subsequent development of detailed project schedules to support project delivery.
• Manage and report on Critical Path Analysis.
• Assess any Subcontractor's programs as per NEC requirements.
• Ensure baseline and detailed project schedules remain aligned and in compliance with company standards.
• Ensure all interdependencies between projects and programmes on a site are built into the schedule and the impact of these interdependencies are recorded and monitored on a regular basis.
• Maintain baseline schedules through change control, reflecting additional / modified / deleted scope and ensuring that the schedule integrity is preserved throughout.
• Maintain the Work Breakdown Structure in accordance with client processes.
• Conduct full and detailed Schedule Performance Index & Schedule Variance analysis and subsequent root cause analysis, followed by provision of narrative, recommendations & recovery plans.
• Involvement in pre contract management and assessment work.
• Ensuring the integrity of baseline and progressed schedules.

Additional responsibilities include: willingness to travel to site / client office in Bridgwater and / or Bristol 2 days a week.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Ideally you will have experience working within the Nuclear sector however individuals with experience working on public sector projects within a regulated environment (i.e. water, rail, aviation etc.) are encouraged to apply.
• Demonstrable experience of working on NEC contracts, preferably options A, C & E.
• Good understanding of Earned Value Management.
• Good understanding of Critical Path Analysis.
• Experienced on P6.
• Significant experience of schedule planning, forecasting and reporting.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.