Project Planner in Bellshill, Scotland

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working? At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation. This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

What will you be doing? M Group are currently looking to recruit a Project Planner to work on our Transmission Networks Division in Scotland. As a Project Planner you will be part of our planning department who are responsible for producing robust and detailed programmes for all works associated with the design, procurement and construction phases of the projects. Also, a key part of the role will be liaising with the Project/Construction Manager and Site Engineers to ensure that the programme keeps abreast of any changes. This role is based around Glasgow and Aberdeen, so travel and a full UK driving licence is required.

As a Project Planner your duties & responsibilities will be:

• Build, optimise and implement construction planning and programmes (including resources, outages, consents and wayleaves) in conjunction with interested parties to deliver the work.
• When necessary, produce detailed trackers to be used to collect and report progress made on a weekly basis.
• Work with the Head of Commercial and the planning team to develop a planning culture throughout the business units and projects.
• With other members of the team deliver full integration of the company’s cost management system to help deliver automatic CPI/SPI reports together with robust processes and disciplines.
• Champion programme management policies, procedures and the standards required to deliver projects.
• Participate in project handover meetings involving the Bid team, Project Manager and Q.S.
• Work closely with the Project Manager and Project Q.S. to maximise the potential of each project, attend site meetings when necessary.
• Provide planning input at tender stage.
• Represent the business at client meetings and ensure deadlines are achieved (KPI requirements).
• Gather benchmarking information to aid the value for money assessment on each project.
• In conjunction with the risk management and value engineer produce and manage the risk, issue and opportunity register for assigned projects within the change management.
• Keep abreast of current and new planning techniques, technologies and initiatives which may have a benefit for the business.
• Maintain ongoing development and delivery of a co-ordinated change agenda for business improvement.
• Work cohesively with the commercial and financial members of the Planning and Systems team.
• Monitor and control programme compliance in respect of our contractual obligations.
• In conjunction with other members of the team, take responsibility for meeting agreed business and project targets, control costs in achieving to achieve targets, managing risks effectively and delivering all agreed outputs, within the agreed economics and safety regulatory framework.
• Contributing to the identification and formulation of strategic objectives.

Hybrid working with 3 days on site.

What you’ll bring:

• Full UK driving licence.
• Competent in the following planning software: Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project.
• Experience of earned value management and NEC contracts. Change management process.
• Experience of working in the energy sector advantageous.

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days' annual leave plus 8 days' bank holiday.
• Pension scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Private health care.
• Benefits scheme.
• Company car and fuel card.

About us: We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours. We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet. We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations. We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life. Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

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