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About the Role
As a P6 Project Planner, you will develop, maintain, and monitor integrated project schedules using Oracle Primavera P6 to support the successful delivery of rail and other major infrastructure projects. You will provide accurate planning, progress measurement, forecasting, and reporting throughout the project lifecycle, working closely with project managers, engineers, commercial teams, contractors, and clients.
Responsibilities
- Develop work breakdown structures, activities, milestones, logic links, and baselines.
- Integrate inputs from multiple disciplines and suppliers.
- Ensure programmes meet contractual, governance, and planning requirements.
- Gather and validate progress information.
- Monitor performance against baseline.
- Identify critical-path issues, risks, and opportunities.
- Recommend recovery or mitigation actions.
- Produce look-ahead programmes, schedule variance analysis, forecasts, dashboards, and KPI reports.
- Assess the programme impact of changes and variations.
- Support earned value management, schedule risk assessment, and alignment between schedule, cost, and risk information.
- Facilitate planning and coordination meetings.
- Present schedule updates and recovery plans.
- Contribute to project reviews and client audits.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience in project planning and scheduling within major capital projects, infrastructure, construction, engineering, energy, rail, utilities, or a related sector.
- Advanced proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6, including the development and maintenance of work breakdown structures, logic-linked activities, milestones, constraints, and baselines.
- Strong understanding of project lifecycle delivery, critical-path analysis, progress measurement, forecasting, schedule optimisation, and change control.
- Ability to integrate schedules across multiple disciplines, contractors, and suppliers.
- Ability to assess schedule impacts arising from changes and variations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with close attention to detail, data quality, and forecast reliability.
- Experience producing clear planning reports, look-ahead programmes, schedule variance analysis, dashboards, and KPI information.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Ability to communicate schedule information clearly through reports and presentations.
- Effective communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Confidence to facilitate planning meetings and constructively challenge assumptions.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet reporting deadlines.
- Degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related discipline.
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent professional qualification or accreditation.
- Experience of resource- or cost-loaded scheduling, earned value management, and schedule risk assessment.
- Familiarity with Power BI, Microsoft Project, SAP, or other project-controls tools.
Skills
- Oracle Primavera P6
- Project planning
- Project scheduling
- Work breakdown structures
- Logic links
- Baselines
- Critical-path analysis
- Progress measurement
- Forecasting
- Schedule optimisation
- Change control
- Schedule integration
- Schedule impact assessment
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Data quality
- Report generation
- Look-ahead programmes
- Schedule variance analysis
- Dashboards
- KPI reporting
- Microsoft Excel
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Meeting facilitation
- Independent work
- Collaborative work
- Priority management
- Deadline management
- Resource-loaded scheduling
- Cost-loaded scheduling
- Earned value management
- Schedule risk assessment
- Power BI
- Microsoft Project
- SAP
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Demonstrable experience in project planning and scheduling within major capital projects, infrastructure, construction, engineering, energy, rail, utilities or a related sector
- Advanced proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6
- Experience of resource - or cost-loaded scheduling, earned value management and schedule risk assessment
- Experience producing clear planning reports, look-ahead programmes, schedule variance analysis, dashboards and KPI information
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent qualification in engineering, construction management, project management, business or a related discipline
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent professional qualification or accreditation
Benefits
- Pension contributions matched between 4.5% and 7%
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x basic salary, with an option to increase to 6 x salary
- Income protection scheme providing financial benefit, absence and return to work support
- Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing
- Annual bonus schemes
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
- Health cash plan
- Access to Peppy for menopause expert support
- Variety of wellbeing support through comprehensive wellbeing program
- Ability to flex salary for health benefits
- Minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays
- Ability to buy or sell leave
- 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts
- Enhanced family leave policies
- 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
- Two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
- Shared parental leave matching maternity leave (up to 24 weeks at full pay)
- Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities (two paid)
- Support for military families
- Primary annual professional institution subscription
- Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development
About the Company
- Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
- We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.
- Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do.
- With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
- Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.
- As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
- Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
- We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe.
- From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it.
- Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle.
- We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.
Equal Opportunity
- We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
- We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.