Planner, Energy​/Power Generation, Civil Engineering

Planner

Final date to receive applications: 27 August 2026

Department: Projects

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Sunderland

Our Business

px Fairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.

The Opportunity

We are now recruiting for a Planner.

You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.

• Support planning sessions and workshops with Project Managers to identify key deliverables, develop the work breakdown structure and agree appropriate schedule logic.
• Create, maintain and update detailed project schedules in line with agreed planning standards and project requirements.
• Work with Project Managers, Project Engineers, Department Managers and other stakeholders to obtain progress updates, activity durations, resource requirements and supporting information.
• Resource-load schedules using the shared resource pool and highlight potential resource conflicts, over-allocation or under-utilisation to the Planning Manager.
• Review schedule logic, constraints, critical and near-critical paths, raising gaps or inconsistencies for resolution.
• Update project progress accurately and support weekly and monthly schedule reviews, ensuring slippage, risks and emerging issues are clearly identified.
• Produce planning reports and schedule outputs, including look-ahead plans, milestone reports, S-curves and baseline variance information.
• Support the identification of corrective actions and recovery options where progress is behind plan.
• Maintain schedule baselines and assist with re-baselining following approved scope changes, ensuring change control requirements are followed.
• Prepare tailored schedule updates and planning information for project reports, client reports, meetings and presentations.
• Keep planning records, assumptions and supporting data accurate, current and auditable.
• More details can be found on the role profile

• Experience in a planning, project controls or project support role, ideally within a construction or engineering environment.
• Working knowledge of planning principles, including work breakdown structures, dependencies, logic, baselines, progress measurement and critical path.
• Experience of using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project to create and maintain project schedules.
• Competent user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Able to interpret project information and identify where schedule data, logic or progress may not be accurate or complete.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Contribution towards eye test and glasses
• Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
• Long Service Awards
• Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Benefits Package
• Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.