Senior Planner; SRO

• Annual incentive related bonus (bup to 15% of annual salary)
• Attractive pension scheme (bup to 12% company contribution)
• Life assurance cover of b4 times pensionable salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – bplus two extra wellness days
• Great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts band many more

Location:

Buttershaw, Bradford / Hybrid Working (2 to 3 office days a week as required), pending office move to Leeds (LS10) from Summer, 2026.

Work type:
Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a senior professional role within the Asset Delivery PMO Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The Asset Delivery team deliver Yorkshire Water’s major asset investment projects and programmes and are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

Under our Strategic Resource Options (SRO) programme we will support a programme of major project capital investment across Yorkshire and the wider UK. The Senior Planner (SRO) will play a critical role in the SRO Programme.

The SRO PMO will be closely aligned to the core Asset Delivery PMO which sits within the Asset Delivery Directorate at Yorkshire Water. It will also work to fulfil and adhere to the needs of RAPID (the Water Industry joint regulatory body governing the SRO programme).

As our Senior Planner (SRO), you will:

Provide Senior planning capability for a £3bn water infrastructure programme to ensure regulatory compliance, efficiency, and safety.

Schedule Management:
Create and maintain complex, integrated programme schedules and work breakdown structures.

Compliance & Governance:
Align timelines with Ofwat’s gated process and internal corporate standards and requirements.

Baseline & EVM:
Build resource-loaded baselines suitable for Earned Value Management (EVM).

Partner Oversight:
Validate third-party contractor schedules against NEC contractual parameters.

Performance Tracking:
Monitor progress using SPI/CPI metrics and produce executive dashboards.

Risk & Scenario Planning:
Run "what-if" scenarios, resolve schedule slippage, and proactively mitigate bottlenecks.

Cross-Functional Unity:
Collaborate with Cost, Risk, and Commercial teams to manage change controls.

Advisory Leadership:
Provide expert planning guidance to senior leaders and project managers.

Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Planning, ideally working on large scale infrastructure projects/programmes. Significant experience in all aspects of planning and scheduling and fluent in the use of Prima-Vera (OPC)

• Work Breakdown and Control Account creation
• Preparation and update of logic linked programme
• Baseline management
• Critical path analysis
• Preparation of periodic reports
• Expert knowledge of resource loading programmes, progress measurement, earned value analysis, completion forecasting and status reporting
• Ability to challenge undesired behaviours appropriately
• Experience of working within Programme Management Office (PMO) environments
• Good IT…