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…

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