Planning Lead in Reading

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.

You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Providing leadership, delivery focus and direction to the client, delivery partners and integrated planning teams.
• Directing, mentoring and developing the planning and scheduling team, ensuring SQEP recruitment, championing schedule management best practice.
• Supporting senior stakeholders, business development, and contributing to long‑term strategic decision‑making.
• Ensuring schedule management information is used to drive robust decision making.
• Establishing, administering and managing the Integrated master schedule (IMS), including the resource dictionary, to ensure visibility of resource utilisation across the project portfolio.
• Maintaining and improving the schedule development, supplier data integration, progress updating and reporting.
• Ensuring the setup and integrity of project baselines, applying robust change control with effective record‑keeping and audit trails.
• Ensuring programme and partnering schedules are developed to agreed planning standards, NEC requirements, and client governance.
• Preparing tender schedules and developing fully cost‑loaded schedules that reflect the complete project scope and generate meaningful performance data.
• Managing the implementation and setup of the schedule and baseline and supporting EVM implementation, analytics and trend and change, risk and commercial control.
• Supporting the risk manager with the QRSA.
• Setting up and administering Primavera environments, and resource dictionaries, ensuring consistency and controlled use across the programme and projects.
• Producing monthly, weekly and ad hoc reports highlighting schedule performance, plan on a page, milestone slip charts, resource utilisation.
• Developing, authoring and maintaining Schedule Management procedures and standard templates aligned with client delivery standards and governance needs.
• Providing expert planning advice to clients and stakeholders.
• Ensuring adherence to planning procedures, methods and systems across all delivery teams and partners.
• Supporting negotiations, commercial discussions and portfolio‑level assurance through high‑quality schedule intelligence.

You’ll Need To Have:

• Degree (or equivalent) with professional work experience in one or more specific disciplines in the construction, programme, project or commercial management disciplines.
• Expert knowledge of schedule management tools and software.
• Mastery in setting up effective planning/schedule management systems and procedures.
• Able to manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcome.
• Experience of working on and leading planning on a major capital programme.

What’s On Offer:

• Car allowance.
• Medical insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Income protection insurance.
• Pension scheme.
• Family friendly policies.
• 22 days + 2 Mace days + 3 x‑Mas shutdown + bank holidays.

Our values:

• Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation. We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.