Programme Planner

About You

Do you thrive on bringing clarity and structure to complex, multi‑programme and multi‑project environments?

Are you at your best influencing and guiding project and programme managers?

Can you work with agility and pace to create new ways of working that drive positive change for coalfield communities and our environment?

If so, read on:

The Mining Remediation Authority is delivering one of the most ambitious mine water remediation programmes across Great Britain. We’re looking for a skilled Programme Planner to shape, coordinate and drive delivery across a diverse and growing portfolio.

This is not a traditional project‑planning role. You will take a portfolio and programme‑level perspective
, building integrated schedules that bring multiple projects together into a coherent, optimised delivery plan for the mine water portfolio. If you enjoy bringing order to complexity and influencing delivery through expert planning, this is a brilliant opportunity to make impact.

To succeed, you'll be an organised, proactive planner with strong stakeholder skills and the confidence to engage delivery teams and senior leaders alike. You thrive in fast‑paced, complex environments, balancing multiple priorities while offering clear guidance and constructive challenge.

You’ll bring proven experience in programme and project planning, ideally within complex infrastructure settings, and be confident developing and managing integrated, logic‑linked schedules across portfolios.

Your technical planning capability is solid, from Work Breakdown Structures and baselining to critical path analysis, progress measurement and forecasting.

Fluent in recognised planning tools such as MS Project, Primavera P6 or Project Online/Planner Premium, you’ll work seamlessly within established systems and support integrated scheduling and reporting.

You’ll also be comfortable operating within governance, assurance, risk and change frameworks, ensuring that planning aligns with organisational requirements and supports informed decision‑making at every level.

As our Programme Planner
, you will lead the development, coordination and assurance of planning across the mine water portfolio. Acting as the planning subject matter expert within the Environment Programme Delivery Office, you will:

• Build and maintain robust, integrated schedules across the full portfolio — not just individual projects.
• Provide expert strategic and tactical planning support to programme and project managers.
• Drive effective capacity planning and resource scheduling across programmes and projects.
• Monitor progress against baselines, identifying slippage, risks and opportunities for corrective action, mitigation and informed decision making.
• Deliver high‑quality planning guidance, coaching and positive challenge to project teams so that projects have proportionate assurance.
• Lead integrated planning sessions that bring delivery teams together to align activity and resolve constraints.

Collaboration is central to this role. You will work closely with colleagues across delivery teams, operations, technical services, business planning functions to ensure planning information is accurate, timely and enables informed decisions.

To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.

We don’t expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Role location:
Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)

Final date to receive applications: 15 March 2026

Sifting date:
Week commencing 16 March 2026

Interviews:
Week commencing 23 March 2026

(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)

Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

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