P6 Planner - SPN

81321 - P6 Planner - SPN

This P6 Planner - SPN will report to the Project Controls and Data Excellence Manager and will work within Capital Programme based in our Maidstone or Crawley office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £65,241 and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

Close Date: 22/02/2026

• 23 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Private Medical Cover
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits:
  Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

The P6 planner manages and maintains the end-to-end P6 project schedules within the Capital Programme department of UK Power Networks. They sit client side and support the whole delivery team (Programme Managers, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Designers, Consents and more) to forecast milestones, activities and costs utilising their knowledge of best practice project controls and P6 activity planning/cost forecasting.

Where and when works are contracted out during delivery, the P6 planner maintains the UKPN master schedule, assesses and incorporates monthly contractor submissions, holds contractor planners and plans to account and supports the analysis of an impact submissions utilising their NEC3 knowledge.

P6 is utilised as the hub of reporting within UKPN Capital Programme for forecasting project costs, activities and milestones. It is also used for recording actual cost to date by activity. You will record and manage the data which is reported from their projects. For each month end reporting cycle, we ask that you are detailed when it comes to the data integrity of your projects ensuring that all actual costs are recorded and coded correctly in your projects and that milestone, activity and cost forecasts for the month, next month, in year and to completion reflect the best view of the project team.

One of the UK Power Networks Capital Programme DNO's with an approximate annual expenditure of £110m

You will manage numerous projects across different stages of the project lifecycle alongside multiple project managers

Provide specialist P6 planning, project controls and contractor schedule review for allocated major projects.

• Independent management, ownership and progression of P6 master schedules for UKPN's Capital Programme Major Projects
• Apply project controls and NEC3 best practice / contract governance processes
• Review and assessment of contractor schedules. 14 point standard checks, NEC contractual obligations checks and data integrity checks against UKPN requirements for master schedule and reporting integration
• Schedule progress reporting accountable to the requirements of the project manager but expected to include month on month variance and forward lookaheads for cost, schedule and earned value
• Apply the UKPN project controls handbook requirements to assigned projects
• Understand and management of project key milestones, dependencies, risks
• Manage actuals and accruals reporting in P6 utilising store period performance
• Work together with the Portfolio Manager, Programme Managers, Project Managers and Planning team, and suppliers to ensure approved contract baseline schedules are established and maintained.
• Provide advice on the schedule impact of proposed change and integrate approved changes into baseline updates
• Validate construction methodologies, resource and cost loading, activity durations, schedule logic, float allocation and critical path identification within plans
• Maintain currency of Programme plans and schedules at Level 4 and below where not assigned to a third-party (supplier)
• Work with Risk Managers and…