Senior Planner

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension.

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Planner to join our Nuclear; Defence and Civil team, supporting some of the UK’s most significant and complex infrastructure programmes. These are long term, high impact projects that offer the opportunity to be part of something meaningful, shaping the future of the UK’s energy and defence landscape.

As a Senior Planner, you’ll play a key role in ensuring projects are effectively planned and delivered. You’ll be central to driving clarity and structure across our programmes, working closely with the Project Managers, technical and commercial teams to ensure timelines, risks, and resources are all aligned.

Key Responsibilities And Duties Include:

• Manage a portfolio of schedules ensuring clear communication of outputs to stakeholders at all levels.
• Ensure schedules comply with procedures and best practices.
• Apply Earned Value (EV) principles, analyse variances, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with lead and management roles to ensure project success.
• Optimise schedule structures and implement improvements.
• Apply change control measures (ideally within the NEC contract model).
• Conduct schedule integrity checks, assess critical paths, and communicate key issues.
• Work closely with cost engineers, project managers, and control managers to underpin EACs.
• Develop and maintain resource-loaded schedules, applying rules of credit where required.
• Use Bentley Synchro, Primavera P6, and BIM models to create and present detailed project plans.
• Ensure project plans capture full scope, identify risks and opportunities, and uphold Health & Safety standards.

Candidate specification:

• Experience in planning, developing detailed resourced schedules, and applying EV techniques on engineering projects.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 and managing a portfolio of schedules.
• Strong communication skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and innovations in project planning.

Additional:

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Confident in presenting to external stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.
• Preferably a member of a recognised professional body (APM, ACostE, or similar).

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including:

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Location(s): Altrincham, Moor Row, Glasgow, Derby, Bristol.

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Energy

Discipline: Planning and modelling

Job Ref: 13358

Recruiter Contact: Erinda Hazizi