At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead planning for large-scale nuclear projects and ensure on-time delivery.
- Company: Join a leading firm in the nuclear sector with a focus on safety and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, mentoring opportunities, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to mentor junior planners and promote best practices.
- Why this job: Shape complex projects while making a real impact in a safety-conscious setting.
- Qualifications: Degree in Project Management or Engineering; experience with integrated project schedules.
The predicted salary is between 54090 - 66110 £ per year.
In this role you will lead planning and scheduling for large-scale nuclear projects, ensuring robust project controls and clear management insight. You will work with cross-functional teams to create realistic plans, monitor performance, and manage baselines and interfaces across engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning. Your focus on schedule integrity, risk, and EVM integration helps drive on-time delivery within strict safety and regulatory contexts. This position offers the chance to shape complex projects and mentor junior planners in a safety-conscious, collaborative environment.
Pay / Benefits
- Develop and maintain integrated Primavera P6 schedules aligned to scope, WBS, CBS and milestones
- Collaborate with PMs, Engineers, Commercial, Risk and stakeholders to create realistic plans
- Lead progress updates, analyze performance, trends and variances, provide management insight
- Identify critical/near-critical paths, dependencies, constraints, risks and opportunities
- Maintain schedule baselines and change control
- Perform schedule health checks and challenge logic, durations, constraints, calendars
- Assess schedule risk and support mitigation and what-if scenarios
- Support resource loading, forecasting and resource profiles/histograms
- Integrate schedule, cost and EVM information for performance measurement
- Manage interfaces across Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning
- Review supplier/contractor schedules and integrate into the overall plan
- Ensure schedules reflect nuclear assurance, approvals, hold points, procurement, testing and commissioning
- Mentor junior planners and promote planning governance and best practice
Tasks
- Advanced Primavera P6 planning and scheduling
- Strong understanding of Earned Value Management and integrated cost/schedule controls
- Strong critical path, schedule assurance, forecasting and analytical skills
- Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving
- Commercial awareness with strong attention to detail
- Proven experience managing complex, integrated project schedules
- Degree in Project Management, Engineering, or related field
Senior Planner in Warrington employer: Assystem UK Ltd
Assystem UK Ltd is an excellent employer for those looking to make a significant impact in the nuclear sector, particularly in Bolton. With a strong focus on employee development, a competitive pension scheme, and flexible working options, Assystem fosters a collaborative work culture that empowers its team members to thrive in complex project environments while contributing to critical new build and SMR programmes.
