Project Planner

Role Description

Arcadis is seeking highly skilled Project Planners including Assistant Planners & Senior Planners to deliver the planning and scheduling of one of our major programmes in the North & Northwest region. This pivotal role combines strategic planning and performance reporting to ensure successful project delivery. You will play a key role delivering Rail infrastructure and driving continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid role, with requirement to be on site minimum 3 days per week.

• Planning and scheduling on complex projects, ensuring robust project controls throughout the lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain project baseline plans, work breakdown structures, and schedules aligned with delivery objectives.
• Monitor progress, identify variances, and implement recovery and contingency plans.
• Report on earned value, progress, and performance to inform financial forecasting and decision-making.
• Analyse project and programme data to identify trends, risks, and anomalies.
• Ensure compliance with planning standards and lifecycle frameworks.
• Audit contractor plans and monitor adherence to Network Rail procedures.
• Collaborate with clients, multidisciplinary teams, and stakeholders to deliver value and build strong relationships.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning processes and adopt emerging digital tools.
• Extensive Knowledge in creating and updating Schedule strategies and processes.
• Extensive Knowledge of schedule assurance processes on Project and programmes.
• Knowledge in use of Power BI

• 5+ year experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally within major rail or infrastructure programmes.
• Experience of major engineering projects.
• Degree/HNC/HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related subject.
• Strong understanding of UK mobility sector and project delivery requirements.
• Proficient in planning software, Good Visio skills and visualising schedules.
• Excellent organisational, commercial, and communication skills.
• Experience with project controls, cost engineering, and financial operations.
• Familiarity with different contracting environments and commercial models.
• Evidence of motivation & leadership of teams.
• Must have proven experience of working with technical engineering staff and be able to communicate well at all levels of the organisation.

• Membership of a relevant professional body.
• Broad understanding of rail, highways or aviation engineering, construction and investment planning systems.
• Experience in the Development of delivery strategies for major projects.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Work streams:
Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.