PMO Planner in Bath

We're looking for an experienced PMO Planner to provide high‑quality planning, scheduling, and project controls support across a diverse portfolio of programmes and projects. You'll play a critical role in ensuring project timelines are realistic, risks are visible, progress is accurately tracked, and senior stakeholders have clear, reliable information to support decision‑making.

What you'll do:

• Developing, maintaining and optimising integrated project schedules using MS Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent tools.
• Working closely with project managers and workstream leads to define activities, durations, dependencies and critical paths.
• Ensuring plans reflect scope, resource availability and delivery constraints.
• Maintaining baseline schedules and managing schedule change control.
• Coordinating CAPEX, Capital Maintenance and OPEX elements of scheme delivery.
• Overseeing the Gateway process (Gates 0–5).
• Tracking plan progress and producing regular schedule performance reports.
• Identifying schedule variances, delays and emerging risks, escalating issues proactively.
• Supporting forecasting of milestones, resource demand and completion dates.
• Producing PMO dashboards, KPIs, and status reports for governance forums.
• Supporting the identification and management of project risks, issues, and interdependencies.
• Integrating risk impacts into schedule forecasts.
• Ensuring mitigation actions are accurately reflected in project plans.
• Ensuring adherence to PMO standards, frameworks, and lifecycle processes.
• Supporting project reviews, stage gates, and audit activities.
• Maintaining robust project documentation and version control.
• Collaborating with project managers, workstream leads, finance teams, and resource managers.
• Facilitating planning workshops and scheduling review sessions.
• Communicating complex scheduling information clearly and confidently to a wide range of stakeholders.

What you'll need:

• Proven experience in a PMO, project planning, or project controls role.
• Background in sectors such as IT, construction, engineering, defence, utilities, or business change.
• Knowledge of PRINCE2, APM, or PMI frameworks (certifications desirable).
• Strong Excel capability and experience with reporting tools (Power BI experience is a plus).
• Strong proficiency in project planning and scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera P6, or similar).
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, risks, and issues.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Highly organised, detail‑focused, and methodical approach.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under pressure.

What you'll receive:

• A combined pension contribution of up to 20%.
• Career progression and professional development opportunities.
• 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service.
• The opportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year.
• The opportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions).
• A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
• Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
• The opportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions).
• Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
• One paid volunteering day each year.
• Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements.
• Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform.
• Support from trained mental health first aiders.
• A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who is successfully recruited by us.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion – with that in mind, all applicants are welcome. We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please inform a member of our Recruitment team.