Planning Manager

About the role

Planning Manager – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Peterborough/Hybrid

@one Alliance a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and seven industry‑leading partners:
Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together, we deliver over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for project planning and delivery? Do you thrive in a leadership role, driving teams to achieve excellence? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

As a Planning Manager
, you’ll:

• Lead & Influence – Play a key role in the Senior Leadership Team, working closely with Delivery Directors and Programme Managers.
• Shape the Future – Own the planning strategy, ensuring successful project execution and continuous improvement.
• Develop & Inspire – Mentor and lead a team of planners, driving collaboration and best practices.
• Drive Efficiency – Identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and ensure on‑time project delivery.
• Embrace Innovation – Leverage cutting‑edge planning techniques like 4D and Time Chainage.
• Make an Impact – Support major infrastructure projects that benefit communities and the environment.

• Develop and maintain robust project plans aligned with @one Alliance and Anglian Water standards.
• Provide strategic insights, ensuring resource alignment and risk mitigation.
• Communicate key project milestones and progress to stakeholders.
• Drive a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Champion health, safety, and wellbeing across all planning activities.

• Proven experience in planning major projects, ideally within the water or civil engineering sector.
• Strong expertise in Primavera P6 and collaborative planning processes. Leadership experience in managing and developing planning teams.
• Excellent communication skills to engage both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Passion for innovation, problem‑solving, and strategic decision‑making.

Ready to Make a Difference?

This is your chance to lead from the front, shaping the success of critical infrastructure projects and leaving a lasting impact. Join us and help build a better, more efficient future!

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40 % remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on‑going maintenance, our in‑house experts, flexible resources and industry‑leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing…