Planner

Application Deadline: 27 August 2026

Department: Projects

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Sunderland

Description

Key Responsibilities

• 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
  
  

Minimum Requirements:

• 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.

What you will receive from us: