Project Planner

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

The Arcadis Water Optimisation team delivers AMP8 Water projects across our clients’ portfolios within clean and wastewater schemes within infrastructure & non-infrastructure. This strategic role will develop and implement robust planning governance, processes, and systems; integrate programme schedules; and drive continuous improvement in delivery performance. Our Programme & Project Management team is seeking a Planning Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will provide expert advice to project teams and senior leadership on earned value management, resource requirements, programme risks, performance reporting, and outturn cost forecasting.

You will collaborate closely with portfolio leads, discipline leads, and business stakeholders to optimise resource forecasting, align plans with delivery capabilities, and strengthen financial and schedule control. Additionally, you will support tendering activities by delivering comprehensive programme inputs, resourcing strategies, and cost forecast data that improve bid accuracy and deliverability. Your leadership will be critical in maturing planning capability, enhancing predictability, and enabling the successful delivery of complex resilience infrastructure programmes.

• Supporting on planning capabilities that support major water AMP8 programmes, defining roles, standards and capability uplift.
• Design, implement and embed new planning processes, procedures and tools to standardise delivery across tender, project and portfolio levels.
• Work on integrated baseline programmes, WBS and schedule hierarchies, ensuring alignment with scope, milestones, regulatory requirements and client expectations.
• Oversee schedule health checks, earned value analysis and variance management; drive recovery, contingency and re-forecast actions as required.
• Produce and present timely reports on schedule performance, earned value, resource utilisation and outturn cost forecasts to inform senior leadership decisions.
• Maintain portfolio-level resource forecasts and capacity plans to support business unit resourcing strategy and recruitment priorities.
• Embed planning governance, data integrity and configuration control in planning systems; assure compliance with standards and auditable baselines.
• Facilitate integrated planning and risk workshops to identify programme risks, opportunities and mitigation measures, escalating critical issues to leadership.

• Sufficient years’ experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally within the water sector but open to complex infrastructure sector.
• Degree/HNC/HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related subject.
• Strong understanding of UK infrastructure delivery contexts, including governance, regulatory and stakeholder requirements
• Proficient in planning software (e.g., Safran, Primavera P6, MS Project).
• Excellent organisational, commercial, and communication skills.
• Experience with project controls, cost engineering, and financial operations.
• Familiarity with different contracting environments and commercial models.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise…