Primavera P6 Planning Engineer

Base Location

Based from one of our Scottish locations; you will be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office in Perth, Glasgow, or Aberdeen.

Circa £55,000 (depending on experience) + performance-related bonus + a fantastic range of benefits designed to support your family, finances, and wellbeing.

Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

At SSEN Transmission
, we’re transforming the UK’s energy future by delivering the critical electricity infrastructure needed to connect vast new sources of renewable power across the north of Scotland. These are projects that will power millions of homes, accelerate Net Zero
, and help deliver the UK’s Clean Power 2030 vision.

With a rapidly expanding programme and a major pipeline of nationally significant projects, we’re recruiting an experienced P6 Planning Engineer to join our growing team. You’ll have the opportunity to work on complex, high‑value infrastructure that truly shapes the UK’s energy landscape.

This role offers
hybrid working
, strong career development, and the chance to meaningfully influence delivery performance across our portfolio.

Using Primavera P6, you’ll help keep our projects on track – ensuring they’re delivered safely, efficiently, and on time. Working closely with our Project Services Manager, Project Managers, Capital Development and Delivery Project Teams, and wider stakeholders, you’ll develop robust, data-driven schedules that enable smart decisions and drive performance across the business.

• Develop and maintain detailed, logic‑driven project schedules across the full lifecycle — from early-stage design through to construction, commissioning and energisation.
• Partner closely with multidisciplinary teams including engineering, commercial, site delivery and external contractors to create realistic, logic driven and aligned programmes.
• Carry out delay analysis and assess change impacts
  , ensuring robust compliance with NEC3 planning and reporting requirements.
• Produce clear, insightful reports that highlight progress, risks, opportunities and performance trends for key stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Review, interrogate and challenge contractor schedules to ensure quality, logic integrity and contractual alignment on large, complex infrastructure projects.

• Demonstrable experience as a Planning Engineer using Primavera P6 on major construction or infrastructure projects.
• Strong practical understanding of NEC3 planning requirements
  , including assessing delay impacts, change events, and contractor claims.
• The ability to use Primavera P6 to build and manage complex, logic-linked construction programmes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, enabling strong relationships with internal teams and external delivery partners.
• A proactive, solution‑focused approach, solid Microsoft 365 skills, and a valid driving licence for travel to SSE offices and project sites (with occasional overnight stays).

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.