Planning & Scheduling Analyst

The purpose of this role is to support the implementation and ongoing operation of planning and scheduling processes across the AM&E Directorate. The role helps maintain schedule integrity across the project lifecycle by supporting schedule assurance and reporting activities and enabling performance monitoring through accurate data and structured reporting.

This includes supporting the provision of progress updates, assuring critical path analysis and engaging with delivery teams to ensure that schedules reflect approved scope, logic and change control and are fully assured.

• Assure detailed schedules in the corporate system for assigned Sub Programmes and Solutions/Projects, ensuring logical sequencing of scope, clear dependencies, and alignment to baselines
• Assure schedules with actual performance data each reporting cycle, ensuring accuracy and alignment to approved change
• Assure schedule inputs into performance dashboards and reports, including critical path, float analysis, milestone tracking, and earned value data (where required)
• Develop, manage, maintain, and closeout schedules for all projects where the AM&E spoke is the deliverer. Manage schedules as per the Hub PMO Planning and Scheduling Standards and Processes. Ensure integration with other control disciplines and ensure integration with other deliverer schedules at a Sub Programme level.
• Support Stage Gate and baseline assurance activities by preparing and submitting required schedule artefacts in line with governance requirements
• Work with project managers, planners, cost, and commercial colleagues to align schedule data with programme and cost baselines
• Ensure schedule data is accurate, structured, and maintained in accordance with Hub PMO standards. Address data gaps or logic conflicts proactively

Base

Location:

Hybrid – Reading

Working Pattern or hours: 36 hours

• Experience supporting planning and scheduling within a PMO or capital delivery environment
• Familiarity with baseline management, progress updates, and schedule change control
• Strong attention to detail and confidence working with large datasets and project plans
• Understanding of delivery lifecycle phases and their scheduling requirements
• Higher education in Business Management, Commercial, Engineering, Project Management or Finance related subject
• Strong Excel skills and ability to interpret and present schedule data
• Understanding of planning concepts such as critical path, float, and dependencies
• Good communication and reporting skills

• Familiarity with earned value reporting or integrated baseline management
• Working towards or holding a project controls or scheduling qualification (e.g. APM, PMI-SP, or equivalent)
• Experience with in the utilities, construction or infrastructure sectors

• Competitive salary up to £65,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

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