Senior Planner (SRO) in Bradford

We have an exciting opportunity for a senior professional role within the Asset Delivery PMO Team at Yorkshire Water, helping to deliver major water infrastructure projects.

Location & Work Type

• Location: Buttershaw, Bradford / Hybrid Working (2 to 3 office days a week as required), pending office move to Leeds (LS10) from Summer, 2026.
• Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, circa £52,955 - £67,891, depending on experience
• Company car allowance (£6,000)
• Annual incentive related bonus (up to 15% of annual salary)
• Private health care
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus two extra wellness days
• A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more

Core Responsibilities

• Schedule Management: Create and maintain complex, integrated programme schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Compliance & Governance: Align timelines with Ofwat's gated process and internal corporate standards and requirements.
• Baseline & EVM: Build resource-loaded baselines suitable for Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Partner Oversight: Validate third-party contractor schedules against NEC contractual parameters.
• Performance Tracking: Monitor progress using SPI/CPI metrics and produce executive dashboards.
• Risk & Scenario Planning: Run 'what-if' scenarios, resolve schedule slippage, and proactively mitigate bottlenecks.
• Cross-Functional Unity: Collaborate with Cost, Risk, and Commercial teams to manage change controls.
• Advisory Leadership: Provide expert planning guidance to senior leaders and project managers.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Planning, ideally working on large scale infrastructure projects/programmes.
• Significant experience in all aspects of planning and scheduling and fluent in the use of Prima-Vera (OPC).
• Work Breakdown and Control Account creation, preparation and update of logic linked programme, baseline management, critical path analysis, preparation of periodic reports, expert knowledge of resource loading programmes, progress measurement, earned value analysis, completion forecasting and status reporting, Prima-Vera administration / Super-User.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to challenge undesired behaviours appropriately.
• Experience of working within Programme Management Office (PMO) environments.
• Good IT skills and the ability to operate professional planning tools, specifically P6.
• Ability to collaborate and build relationships across the wider teams.

Preferred Additional Experience

• Experience of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets.
• Previous experience in a commercially orientated and/or regulatory environment.
• Understanding of Ofwat Major Water Infrastructure Programme Gated Process.
• Knowledge of Project Controls tools and principals.
• Prima-Vera certified.
• APM/PMP certification.

Accessibility & EEO

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible. If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required.