Lead Planning Manager

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Taunton, GB, TA5 1UD

Onsite or Hybrid:
Hybrid

Job Title:
Lead Planning Manager

Location:
Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater, Somerset – Hybrid Working Patterns Available

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

Drive the planning excellence behind one of the United Kingdom’s most significant infrastructure and nuclear programmes

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Lead Planning Manager at Hinkley Point C, near Bridgwater, Somerset. This role is central to ensuring the successful coordination and delivery of a major Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC programme, helping to support critical national infrastructure for generations to come.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work as part of the MEH Alliance on the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project. The alliance work across the project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main Mechanical, Electrical, Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (MEH), cabling and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station’s vast network of rooms.

The role

As a Lead Planning Manager, you'll lead the integration and control of complex programme schedules across multiple engineering disciplines. Working at the heart of a large-scale infrastructure project, you'll provide the planning leadership needed to align delivery activities, manage interfaces and constraints, and ensure projects remain achievable, predictable and efficiently coordinated.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the successful delivery of a nationally important programme while working alongside industry-leading engineering, construction and project controls professionals. You'll play a vital role in enabling informed decision-making, driving collaboration and helping create lasting infrastructure that supports the UK's future.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading the integration of Mechanical, Electrical and HVAC Level 5 schedules across the programme.
• Coordinating the development and review of discipline and area four-week lookahead plans.
• Managing the consolidation and maintenance of the overall 16-week lookahead schedule.
• Integrating engineering, materials, access, resource, construction, testing and commissioning requirements into delivery plans.
• Promoting collaborative planning, constructive challenge and professional standards to support successful programme delivery.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Hinkley Point

C. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Lead Planning Manager:

• Significant experience within a project controls, planning or programme controls environment.
• Proven experience coordinating complex, multidisciplinary programmes within major project environments.
• Strong expertise in schedule management, including Level 5 planning and lookahead planning.
• Experience managing project interfaces, constraints and dependencies to enable predictable delivery.
• Ability to lead, influence and collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders across large-scale engineering, infrastructure, energy or nuclear projects.

Qualifications for the Lead Planning Manager:

• Degree in Engineering, Project Management or a related discipline
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
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