Senior Planning Consultant​/Senior Project Planner

Senior Planning Consultant/Senior Project Planner Bristol, United Kingdom / Plymouth, United Kingdom

Country:
United Kingdom

Contract type:
Permanent

Work pattern:
Full Time

Market:
Project programme and commercial management, Planning and modelling, Project controls

Location/s: Plymouth, Bristol
Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance - we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit Mott Mac Donald's Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.

We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients' key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Our industry-leading specialist advisory teams offer a range of transformational services that support our core project, programme, and commercial offering, as well as supporting our clients in addressing their business needs. These includes climate change, estimating and cost intelligence, health, safety and wellbeing, land advisory, planning PMO, quality management and risk management.

The specialist advisory team brings together multiple critical services in a connected offering, drawing on cross-sector best practice and expertise. We add huge value to our clients through our integrated approach, whilst relentlessly focus on excellence and our passion for improving society.

We are looking for an experienced and driven Senior Planning Consultant to join our team. This role requires deep expertise in planning and scheduling across diverse projects and industries. You will work closely with project leads to deliver exceptional value to our clients and play an active role in the continued growth and development of our business.

What you will contribute to the Team

• Establish and deliver professional and comprehensive planning and scheduling services across a variety of complex projects providing accurate and verified schedule management service either as a managed service or as part of an integrated team.
• Collaborate with delivery team, supply chain, end users, customers and stakeholders to develop, baseline, and maintain high-quality project schedules. Support alignment by setting up and delivering collaborative / integrated planning workshops and capability to show and confirm alignment across multiple organisations and supply chains.
• Develop, underpin, assure, and set up credible baseline schedules for our customers or projects validating all information incorporated into the schedule through authoring detailed Basis of Schedule documents to demonstrate good planning practice and alignment to requirement, benefits, and key dates.
• Establish tool techniques and procedures to determine and confirm progress, determine performance to date and forecast accurately future progress. Support through identifying risks issues and opportunities to schedule and develop and deliver expert advice to internal and external customers supported by comprehensive documented analysis.
• Provide expert advice to our customer and project managers on planning tools, methodologies, and best practices and options to maintain schedule alignment to required benefits and outcomes. Work with project teams to
• Mentor and guide junior planners, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to business development efforts and the evolution of planning capabilities within the organization.
• Proven experience as a Senior Project Planner, with a strong record in planning, monitoring, and controlling project delivery…