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Principal Project Planner - Government

Job in Leeds, West Yorkshire, ME17, England, UK
Listing for: Spinwell Global
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-21
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Railroad / Railway, Civil Engineering
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 65000 - 80000 GBP Yearly GBP 65000.00 80000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Role:
Principal Project Planner

Contract Length: 12 months with a view to extending

Location:

Hybrid/Leeds – 3 days in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)

IR35:
Inside

Pay Rate to Intermediary:
Market Rate

Security Clearance: BPSS

Spinwell is recruiting for a Principal Project Planner for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PRINCIPAL PROJECT PLANNER

Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is a programme of activities that is improving the railway between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield.

Stretching across the North of England between York and Manchester, this key 76-mile Transpennine railway serves 23 stations, crosses over and dips under 285 bridges and viaducts, passes through six miles of tunnels and crosses over 29 level crossings

It is the largest railway upgrade in the country. The programme runs across multiple control periods and will deliver transformational changes to the current railway.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PRINCIPAL PROJECT PLANNER
  • Strong communications skills, able to explain planning and scheduling outputs to non-planning personnel.
  • Demonstrate leadership of teams and developing others.
  • Examples of simplifying complex / detailed programme for reporting purposes
  • Understanding of railway design and delivery principles, experience in reading Railway Access box plans alongside schedules
  • Experience in early stage project development (ES1–ES3) within the  lifecycle
  • Experience with in the construction & delivery phase (ES4–ES8) within the  lifecycle
  • Experience in stakeholder management.
  • Strong experience in integrating multiple schedules
  • Experience working with train and freight operator projects
  • Demonstration of Rail planning and scheduling experience
  • Demonstrate an understanding of constructability of projects / programmes
  • Membership of a relevant professional body and/or have a CPD established to attain membership
  • Relevant successful experience in the management, planning and scheduling of delivering major construction/engineering projects.
  • Relevant successful experience of proprietary software planning and scheduling tools
  • Previous knowledge and expertise within the field of project resource management.
  • Good information technology user skills.
  • Knowledge of automating schedule / project data
  • Experience in Development of delivery strategies and developing delivery/ output schedules
  • Experience in reviewing construction staging and providing feedback.
  • Experience/Knowledge of reviewing Schedule Assurance narratives

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

Applying to this or any other vacancy advertised by Spinwell Ltd constitutes an agreement for Spinwell Ltd to hold your details for 24 months for the purpose of assessing suitability for the advertised position and to make you aware of any other positions deemed suitable of which You will make you aware by means of either email, text or phone. In line with GDPR regulations you are able to request your details be removed from the company data at any time by emailing us

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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