Planner, Engineering, Civil Engineering

About the role

Planner –
Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Peterborough (at least 3 working days required in office)

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the (6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance:
Overview | Linked In @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners:
Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

Entering AMP 8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we’re taking on nature‑based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We’re setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

We are now looking for an experienced Planner to take ownership of project schedules, drive delivery against the plan, and challenge delay and deviation to ensure successful project outcomes.

As a Planner
, you will be a key member of a highly collaborative delivery team. You will develop, manage and maintain robust project plans, using your experience and enthusiasm to drive efficiency, performance and continuous improvement across projects.

• Develop and maintain detailed, fully integrated project plans in line with @one Alliance planning methodologies and best practice
• Lead scope and resource planning, ensuring all deliverables and resource requirements are clearly captured
• Proactively manage risk and opportunity, identifying critical paths and driving mitigation strategies to maintain momentum
• Support 4D planning and digital rehearsals, creating visual simulations to enhance construction planning and execution
• Communicate planning strategy clearly to ensure alignment across project teams and stakeholders
• Uphold planning standards and ensure compliance with @one Alliance processes and industry regulations
• Champion a safety‑first mindset, ensuring planning activities fully support safe delivery

We’re looking for a professional with proven planning experience on civil engineering projects, ideally within the water sector. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in Primavera P6 and collaborative planning techniques, be able to interpret technical drawings and translate them into clear, actionable project plans, and possess excellent communication skills with confidence to engage and influence at all levels.

• Proven planning experience on civil engineering projects, ideally within the water sector
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 and collaborative planning techniques
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and translate them into clear, actionable project plans
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to engage and influence at all levels
• A solutions‑focused, adaptable approach with a drive for efficiency and out performance

Join @one Alliance and play a key role in shaping the future of infrastructure delivery. Your expertise will make a lasting impact as we move into AMP
8.

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.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of 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…

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