Associate (Planner)

Overview

As an Associate Planner, you will develop and deliver planning services across large projects within a dynamic capital programmes team. You will work with high-profile clients, applying schedules, risk analysis, and progress reporting to support timely delivery. You’ll collaborate with multiple stakeholders and contribute to market-leading initiatives using scheduling tools and data dashboards. This role offers hands-on PMO experience, autonomy with supervision, and opportunities to advance our project controls capability across major programmes.

Responsibilities

• Develop, update and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 (preferred) and/or Microsoft Project
• Define and maintain a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and articulate milestones, interdependencies and critical path
• Apply installation rates to quantity take-offs to produce realistic schedules
• Track project performance against baselines and support time impact/delay analyses
• Review contractor schedules for acceptance and provide recommendations
• Collaborate with Cost Management to create an integrated CBS and forecast resource requirements
• Develop forecasts of resource requirements aligned with cost estimates
• Contribute to schedule risk analysis and scenario planning
• Produce discipline-specific progress and performance reports and BI-ready schedule reports
• Lead workshops and communicate with senior management; translate complex data into clear messages
• Plan and structure reports and presentations for concise delivery
• Deliver high-quality work within challenging timeframes in a consultancy environment
• Maintain awareness of EVM metrics and their impact on timelines
• Support change control processes and assess time impact of change requests
• Monitor forecast schedules against baselines and report on ETC and remaining work
• Contribute to dashboards and look-ahead plans for internal and external stakeholders

Key requirements

• Experience on major capital projects or programmes (100m+), preferably in a live operational environment
• Hands-on scheduling experience within a PMO or site setting, able to work autonomously
• Proven ability to develop and update schedules linked to change logs and risk registers
• Experience delivering dashboard-style reports using Excel and/or Power BI
• Knowledge of construction project lifecycles and NEC contracts
• Strong communication skills with stakeholders at all levels and ability to lead workshops
• Ability to distill complex data into clear reports and presentations
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, self-motivated and proactive

• strong communicator
• collaborative and client-facing
• analytical mindset
• Primavera P6
• Microsoft Project
• Excel

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