Senior Planning Manager

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site. Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential of every project.

Our client is one of the largest water companies in the UK, responsible for water and wastewater services in England. Their purpose is to deliver their services in an environmentally sustainable, economically beneficial, and socially responsible manner and create sustainable long‑term value for all. We currently provide the client with a range of services focussed on programme and project management and are always looking for opportunities to deliver more value through the provision of expert and strategic staff.

The role involves planning and leading the successful delivery of a programme of works being delivered by an ‘Area delivery team’ made up of the client’s partners and contractors in accordance with their corporate values and following requirements: health and safety strategy – personnel safety, process safety and health and wellbeing; target operating model – system thinking, situational awareness and production line thinking;

and outcomes – regulatory, customer and resilience. The role is required to be based from our client's office in Warrington, Cheshire, 3 days per week.

• You will be a leading advocate of Mace's value of safety first, and be accountable for leading and maintaining exceptional safety, quality, cost, programme, sustainability, and project compliance standards.
• You will possess advanced technical expertise in local health and safety rules and regulations relevant to project portfolio.
• You will champion a diverse and inclusive working environment and understand the importance of the wellbeing of the people you manage.

• You will ensure the successful delivery of key assignments and defined business areas, providing strategic direction and monitoring delivery aligned with overall vision and objectives.
• You will be responsible for implementing appropriate programme delivery environments, including people, organisation, process, information and technology.
• You will promote and influence quality and service excellence in all conversations and programme interactions.
• Managing application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques, and tools.
• Good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, project controls methodologies.
• Ability to advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively.
• Able to manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects/programmes.
• Ability to play key role in multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plans or analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques.
• Leads and manages a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and responsible for staff development.
• Excellent written communication skills, clear and concise.
• As a planning/schedule management specialist, stays up to date with key industry/professional trends.
• In depth knowledge of schedule management tools and software.
• Able to provide effective and timely advice to clients.
• Understanding of data management.
• Clearly understands role and future career paths available from that position.
• Excellent attention to detail and able to validate and check schedule management inputs, recording and reports produced, providing basic commentary and analysis.
• Manages assistant and planning managers where required by the scale of the project.
• Persuading and influencing colleagues.
• Influences client to accept proposals and recommendations.
• Satisfying customer requirements.
• Tackling problems that don’t have an obvious solution.
• Delegating tasks to others.
• Selling the business and winning work.
• Creating and delivering persuasive presentations to large audiences.
• Spotting and developing…