Planning Engineer

About The Role

Join our Power Transmission & Distribution team as a Planning Engineer and play a key role in delivering the Bramford Substation project in Suffolk, supporting the UK’s transition to Net Zero. Working on a major transmission infrastructure project, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and maintaining project programmes from pre‑construction through to commissioning and handover. This is an opportunity to contribute to a nationally significant energy project while working alongside industry‑leading professionals in a collaborative and forward‑thinking environment.

As a Planning Engineer, you will support the successful delivery of the Bramford Substation project through effective programme management and planning excellence.

• Develop and maintain fully resourced, logically linked project programmes across all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Create and manage baseline schedules, ensuring alignment with project scope, milestones, and delivery objectives.
• Monitor progress against programme targets and identify opportunities to improve performance.
• Analyse programme risks, critical paths, float consumption, and potential delays, implementing mitigation measures where required.
• Support change management processes by assessing programme impacts and maintaining accurate records.
• Produce regular planning reports, dashboards, KPIs, and strategic insights for project leadership and client stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project managers, engineers, commercial teams, suppliers, and clients to ensure programme alignment.
• Support the preparation and maintenance of short‑term lookaheads and integrated delivery schedules.
• Contribute to tender planning and scenario analysis where required.
• Promote planning best practice and support the development of junior planning team members.

We are seeking an experienced planning professional with a strong background in major infrastructure and energy projects.

• A degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in a Planning Engineer role within power transmission, utilities, energy, or major infrastructure projects.
• Experience working on substation, transmission, civil engineering, or multidisciplinary construction projects.
• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 and/or Asta Power project.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience producing planning reports and dashboards.
• A sound understanding of NEC3 and NEC4 contracts.
• Knowledge of earned value management, quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA), and time risk allowance (TRA) methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
• The ability to build effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Membership of a relevant professional body or progress towards chartership would be advantageous.

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.

• 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…