Senior Project Planner

At Morrison Energy Services, 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 Electricity Transmission 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.

Are you ready to join a growing team of 5 Planners, working on National Grid substation projects across the UK? This hybrid role offers flexibility to work from home, with at least two days a week in our Solihull or Nottingham offices, allowing you to collaborate and spend valuable time with your team! You’ll need to travel to site also, so a driving licence is needed for this role.

What will you be doing? Are you a skilled planner with a passion for creating and improving construction schedules? Your expertise will be vital to our success! We’re looking for someone who excels at managing resources and subcontractors and who enjoys being involved in every stage of the project, working closely with the site delivery team and attending client meetings, from initial planning to final handover. In this role, you will also collaborate with our bid team, offering your planning expertise to make our bids competitive and accurate. Your ability to collect benchmarking data for value assessments and manage risk, issue, and opportunity registers will be highly valued. If you are passionate about exploring new planning techniques and technologies and can lead a change agenda for business improvement, we’d love to have you on our team!

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience working with Primavera P6 & Microsoft Project
• Experience of earned value management, NEC contracts and change management process.
• If you have worked in the energy sector, then that would be great! However, if you have experience working on any major infrastructure projects, we would love to hear from you!

What’s in it for you?

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance, and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave, and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers:

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice, our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!

Please note: Occasionally, we may close job adverts before the stated closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of our hiring process. Some of our roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of our induction.

M Group Services delivers a range of essential infrastructure services within the water, energy, transport, and telecommunications sectors in the UK & Ireland. We have built and maintained relationships with our clients over a number of years and have a strong culture that continuously focuses on safety, operational delivery, efficiency, and customer service. We are committed to profitable growth both organically and through acquisitions. M Group Services, a trusted employer to over 10,000 skilled specialists working from 240 locations, operates a divisional structure aligned with its end markets. At M Group Services we recognise and value the benefits from our workforce diversity. We work hard to build and maintain inclusive environments and develop a culture where our people feel included and valued.