Senior Planning Consultant​/Senior Project Planner

Senior Planning Consultant / Senior Project Planner

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Location/s: Plymouth, Bristol

Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Mott Mac Donald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

• Establish and deliver professional and comprehensive planning and scheduling services across a variety of complex projects providing accurate and verified schedule management service either as a managed service or as part of an integrated team.
• Collaborate with delivery team, supply chain, end users, customers and stakeholders to develop, baseline, and maintain high‑quality project schedules. Support alignment by setting up and delivering collaborative / integrated planning workshops and capability to show and confirm alignment across multiple organisations and supply chains.
• Develop, underpin, assure, and set up credible baseline schedules for our customers or projects validating all information incorporated into the schedule through authoring detailed Basis of Schedule documents to demonstrate good planning practice and alignment to requirement, benefits, and key dates.
• Establish tool techniques and procedures to determine and confirm progress, determine performance to date and forecast accurately future progress. Support through identifying risks, issues and opportunities to schedule and develop and deliver expert advice to internal and external customers supported by comprehensive documented analysis.
• Provide expert advice to our customer and project managers on planning tools, methodologies, and best practices and options to maintain schedule alignment to required benefits and outcomes. Work with project teams to
• Mentor and guide junior planners, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to business development efforts and the evolution of planning capabilities within the organization.

• Proven experience as a Senior Project Planner, with a strong record in planning, monitoring, and controlling project delivery across various industries and contract types.
• Expertise in integrated planning across engineering, procurement, and construction, including facilitation of planning workshops.
• Must have excellent attention to detail and be outcomes oriented with the ability to work independently or lead teams.
• Proficiency in developing detailed project schedules from technical data or scope statements, including resource and cost integration.
• Skilled in applying industry‑standard scheduling techniques (e.g., Critical Path, Critical Chain, Resource Levelling, Earned Value).
• Ability to estimate and document schedule assumptions and present schedules in assurance…