P6 Senior Planner

Overview

P6 Senior Planner role at AWE – responsible for maintaining the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and delivering planning expertise across a sovereign replacement warhead programme.

RG7 4PR
– between Reading and Basingstoke. 9‑day working fortnight with 100% on‑site requirement. Flexible working requests are considered.

Salary: £49,830 – £78,770 (depending on suitability, qualifications and experience).

• Deliver high‑quality project controls planning capability through the development, maintenance and assurance of complex Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), providing accurate, timely and defensible forecasts to inform critical programme decisions.
• Lead and support planning activities across the full project lifecycle, ensuring alignment to scope, cost and delivery strategy under configuration control.
• Undertake schedule analysis and performance management, including critical path, dependencies, variance analysis and forecasting, to provide clear insight into current and future delivery positions.
• Facilitate planning workshops and provide independent assurance and challenge through peer reviews, schedule health checks and adherence to planning standards and governance.
• Drive continuous improvement and planning excellence, evolving processes, tools and capability while championing best practice across the programme.
• Identify emerging risks, trends and delivery threats, providing early warning, recovery options and decision support to stakeholders.
• Lead, coach and mentor junior planners, developing planning capability and embedding consistent standards of quality, integrity and delivery excellence across teams.
• Champion the highest standards of safety, health, environment, security and quality, recognising the critical importance of these principles in delivering a programme central to the UK’s national security.

• Experience of planning on projects/programmes in a dynamic, delivery focused environment.
• Advanced level of skill with Oracle Primavera P6.
• Skills in Microsoft Office.
• Qualification in an appropriate business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

• 9‑day working fortnight – every other Friday off, plus 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market‑leading contributory pension scheme (pay between 9% and 13% depending on contributions).
• Family‑friendly policies: maternity leave – 39 weeks full pay; paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay.
• Professional career development opportunities, including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 × annual salary).
• Discounts on everyday spending.
• Special leave policy, including paid time off for volunteering, public service and caring.

Applicants must be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years to qualify for Security Clearance (SC) and 10 years for Defence Vetting (DV). The role requires obtaining and maintaining the necessary security clearance, which will be funded by AWE.