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About the Role
This strategic role will develop and implement robust planning governance, processes, and systems; integrate programme schedules; and drive continuous improvement in delivery performance. The Programme & Project Management team is seeking an experienced Senior Planning Engineer to join us as a leader who will build and mature our planning capability, while also providing hands-on planning leadership for major delivery across the Water sector.
Responsibilities
- Lead on planning capabilities that support major water AMP8 programmes, defining roles, standards and capability uplift.
- Design, implement and embed new planning processes, procedures and tools to standardise delivery across tender, project and portfolio levels.
- Own integrated baseline programmes, WBS and schedule hierarchies, ensuring alignment with scope, milestones, regulatory requirements and client expectations.
- Oversee schedule health checks, earned value analysis and variance management; drive recovery, contingency and re-forecast actions as required.
- Produce and present timely reports on schedule performance, earned value, resource utilisation and outturn cost forecasts to inform senior leadership decisions.
- Provide strategic input to tender programmes, including programme assumptions, resource plans, risk assessments and cost forecast data to improve bid deliverability.
- Maintain portfolio-level resource forecasts and capacity plans to support business unit resourcing strategy and recruitment priorities.
- Embed planning governance, data integrity and configuration control in planning systems; assure compliance with standards and auditable baselines.
- Facilitate integrated planning and risk workshops to identify programme risks, opportunities and mitigation measures, escalating critical issues to leadership.
- Drive continuous improvement and digital adoption in planning and reporting to enhance predictability, efficiency and decision support across the business.
Requirements
- Sufficient years’ experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally within the water sector but open to complex infrastructure sector.
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with project controls, cost engineering, and financial operations.
- Familiarity with different contracting environments and commercial models.
Skills
- Proficient in planning software (e.g., Safran, Primavera P6, MS Project).
- Excellent organisational, commercial, and communication skills.
Location
- United Kingdom
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree/HNC/HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related subject.
About the Company
- Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
- We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
- We believe everyone's contribution matters.
- We are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
- You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.
- Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
- Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Equal Opportunity
- We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions.
- Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.
- We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.
- Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.
- A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.