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About the Role

This role is critical for a major national rail programme focused on delivering a modern, electrified high-speed corridor. The position involves leading the planning function, ensuring robust planning, scheduling, and monitoring across projects and tenders to achieve effective, predictable, and high-quality delivery outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Champion Mace’s Safety First culture, ensuring exemplary safety, quality, compliance and an inclusive, supportive working environment.
• Provide strategic leadership of planning performance, ensuring projects and tenders are effectively planned, scheduled and monitored to meet business objectives.
• Uphold ethical, commercially sound operations while shaping long‑term strategy and supporting due‑diligence activities.
• Develop and empower teams through mentoring, innovation, knowledge sharing and proactive talent growth.
• Lead planning and scheduling for medium to high‑complexity programmes, applying robust project controls, EVM and analytical techniques.
• Provide expert analysis, advising on complex requirements and communicating clear corrective actions to clients and stakeholders.
• Guide and develop the planning team, driving high‑quality performance and professional growth.
• Support senior leadership through informed input into negotiations, due diligence and business development activities.

Requirements

• Experience delivering major rail or high‑speed programmes, ideally within the design or early set‑up stages.
• Extensive planning experience across major property or infrastructure programmes.
• Strong commercial, financial and digital scheduling expertise, with mastery of modern planning tools.
• Proven leadership of high‑performing teams with senior stakeholder influence and sustainability awareness.

Skills

• Project controls
• EVM
• Analytical techniques
• Commercial expertise
• Financial expertise
• Digital scheduling
• Modern planning tools
• Stakeholder influence
• Sustainability awareness

Location

• On-site

Work Type

• Part time
• Flexible
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Degree-educated with professional accreditation (APM, RICS, CIOB, ICE, AACE, IRM, IEMA) or working toward equivalent.

Salary/Compensations

• $150,000 - $230,000

About the Company

• Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition.
• Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.
• Safety first - Going home safe and well: You will champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in your team and local health and safety rules or regulations of the work you’re involved with.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise: You will lead on the cost management services including estimating, procurement and cost planning, owning the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and building long term relationships with your clients.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing: You will lead operations that are fiscally and ethically viable, influencing the achievement of business objectives that align with business and legislative compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel: You will mentor, coach, and develop teams, demonstrating effective leadership to ensure excellence in delivery against plans, championing a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities.

Equal Opportunity

• Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.