Senior Planner
Listed on 2026-10-27
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Engineering
Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineer, Environmental & Urban Planning, Water Management
Position:
Senior Planner
Location:
Peterborough with hybrid working available
Salary Guide:
65-75k (neg DOE), car/allowance, and excellent benefits
Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a number of water and wastewater non-infrastructure projects for Anglian Water through Alliance.
The Role:
Our client is looking to strengthen their Planning team with a Senior Planner for the Anglian Water Region. Whilst leading and developing a team towards planning excellence, you'll ensure the project plan and programme are kept on track with any mitigating circumstances successfully overcome. By using your knowledge and expertise in planning, you'll build the trust and confidence of key stakeholder by delivering project updates backed up by value- added data which can contribute to delivery improvements as they progress.
Prepare and Monitor Plans
- Lead collaborative digital planning and production meetings to ensure clarity of requirements and expectations.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans in accordance with framework and Anglian Water requirements.
- Liaise with delivery teams to ensure consistency in methodology and outputs.
- Proactively identify opportunities and risks and explore mitigation strategies.
- Develop 4D animations of project plans to aid in digital rehearsal of construction.
- Gather progress information and communicate effects on key dates, challenging the team to deliver on time.
- Attend site regularly to gather program update information.
- Communicate critical paths and key activities in team meetings.
- Advise the team on priorities to prevent activities from becoming critical.
- Attend meetings as required and provide project-specific reports as needed.
- Maintain planning standards and adhere to published processes.
- Ensure integrity of project plans and actively participate in driving best practices.
- Ensure alignment between plans and cost forecasts.
Minimum five years of experience in planning large-scale projects within the Civil Engineering or Construction sector, preferably in the Water Industry
- Essential experience with Primavera P6 and collaborative planning processes.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Attention to detail and ability to manage complex project plans effectively.
- Commitment to health and safety principles.
- Car/car allowance (subject to role and level of position)
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
- Contribution Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Health Insurance
- Private medical Insurance
- And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc
- Planning Engineer
- Planner
- Project Planner
- Senior Planner
- Senior Planning Engineer
- Senior Project Planner
- Planning Manager
- Construction
- Project Programmes
- P6 Programmes
- Project Delivery
- Project Plans
- Water Industry
- Water Sector
- Water Treatment
- Clean Water
- Sewage
- Wastewater
- Waste Water
- Utilities
- Highways
- Power
- Energy
- Nuclear
- Energy from Waste
- Rail
- Infrastructure
- Primavera
- P6
- Severn Trent Water
- Thames Water
- South East Water
- Veolia
- AMP 7
- AMP 8
- NEC
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