Project Planner

81752 - Project Planner

This Project Planner will report to the Client Delivery Manager and will work within UKPN Services – Client Delivery based in our Aldershot office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £65,241 plus car and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

Close Date: 08/01/2026

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits:
  Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Drive and deliver the schedule and planning activity within the Defence sector and wider PMO.

Support the Programme Manager, team members and Project Managers in managing the project delivery schedules of all projects, and the coordination of these projects into a sub-programme of works.

Provide schedule impact assessment information to support the project and portfolio change control and risk processes. Validate suppliers schedule impact assessment submissions to support the change control process and oversee the maintenance of suppliers' contract baselines.

• Work with the Programme Managers, Project Managers and suppliers, to ensure approved contract baseline schedules are established and maintained (following Contract Change procedure)
• Apply project controls and NEC best practice / contract governance processes
• Manage project key milestones, dependencies and risk
• Manage project activity with P6 planners within the Services Teams.
• Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, schedule logic, float allocation and critical path identification within suppliers' submissions to support UK Power Networks contract programme approval obligations.
• Maintain schedules in Primavera P6 and consistency / alignment with approved UK Power Networks Services WBS/OBS
• Manage others to maintain P6 schedules to the required standard
• Provide accurate Programme data to meet UK Power Network Services reporting requirements supporting Earned Value Management reporting.
• Maintain currency of Programme plans and schedules at Level 4 and below where not assigned to a third-party (supplier)
• Support / facilitate schedule risk analysis on a periodic basis.
• Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates.
• Work with Risk Managers and programme teams to identify and incorporate risk mitigating actions into the planned work scope and to incorporate appropriate time/cost contingency levels across the baseline schedules.
• Lead/facilitate collaborative planning workshops and provide presentations, coaching and facilitation in the use of Primavera software.
• Achieve compliance with UK Power Network Services project delivery and programme/programme governance procedures.
• Identify, control and forecast the time scales and resource requirements of projects to minimise the likelihood of time overruns.
• Co-ordinating the flow of information to ensure that interfaces within projects are effectively managed to improve efficiencies
• Oversee the progressing programmes, monitoring and reporting on project performance, highlighting deviations, providing early warnings and identifying and presenting project slippage recovery strategies
• Manage a database to capture and identify work rate norms and trends, earned value and performance indicators
• Manage support for colleagues in project teams
• Obtain agreement to the schedule from project teams and co-ordinate schedule interfaces between the different control areas
• Work with the project cost/ risk engineer and estimator to provide a seamless service

• Will be focused on value planning, ensuring full consultation with all planning…