Project Planning Lead

• We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience, 4a, £52,955 - £67,891
• Annual incentive related bonus - £1000 maximum Bonus Opportunity for the Performance Year
• Attractive pension scheme (
  up to 12% company contribution
  )
• Development opportunities in line with the Project Planning Lead progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays –
  plus two extra wellness days!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• A 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 and many more!

Buttershaw, Bradford /hybris working (1-2 office days per week), pending office move to Leeds (LS10) from Summer, 2026.

Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Planning Lead to join the Project Controls 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 Project Controls team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

As our Project Planning Lead you will:

• Provide assurance on schedules submitted by Delivery Partners, ensuring they can be accepted based on the NEC guidelines.
• Create end to end Project and programme baselines
• Measure progress and schedule impact on key milestones
• Chair regular scheduling sessions to discuss milestone movement, seeking solutions to mitigate any schedule risk.
• Carry out ‘what-if’ scenario planning of sites to ensure the optimum schedule is achieved.
• Work closely with Project controls lead and wider cost, risk and change management teams to provide a fully integrated performance approach.
• Work as part of the programme team to deliver excellent performance by understanding how their individual performance links into achieving the team’s wider objectives.
• Support the Project Delivery teams with compensation event analysis.
• Proactive approach to managing interfaces and potential blockers, working with project teams to reduce schedule risk.
• Understanding and developing best practice and innovation supported with measuring & monitoring the implementation of new ideas
• Other work as needed in support of successful project delivery

• Significant experience in all aspects of planning and scheduling in P6 Including but not limited to;
• Work Breakdown structure creation
• Preparation and update of logic linked programme
• Baseline management
• Critical path analysis
• Preparation of periodic reports
• An understanding of Risk management and change management
• Experience or knowledge of resource loading programmes, progress measurement, earned value analysis, completion forecasting and status reporting
• Ability to challenge undesired behaviours appropriately
• Experience of utilities or large Infrastructure projects.
• Good IT skills and the ability to operate professional planning tools, specifically P6.
• Ability to collaborate and build relationships across the wider teams.

• Experience of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets.
• Previous experience in a commercially orientated environment.
• Previous experience…