Planning Manager

The Role

As Planning Manager, you will play a vital role in the provision of scheduling management, leadership, and subject matter expertise for the Onshore or Offshore Transmission Project Team. This is a key project in the “Pathway to 2030” delivering electricity transmission infrastructure to deliver the UK and Scottish Governments 2030 targets. You will bring a strategic and forward thinking approach to a high performing project environment, ensuring that planning and scheduling activity is aligned, insight driven and capable of supporting complex, large scale delivery. Your contribution will help steer project teams, strengthen decision making, and maintain the clarity, confidence and momentum needed to deliver this nationally significant work.

You will:

• Serve as a thought leader and innovator in full project lifecycle planning and scheduling, and provide leadership in integrating and communicating current and emerging industry methodologies and technologies.
• Proactively lead the management of top-down planning and scheduling on projects and supervise the baselining and issuance of network-logic-drive schedules, schedule analysis narratives and status reports that motivate and meet the time, and quality needs of the project team to define status, risks, opportunities and corrective actions for implementation and work management.
• Apply practical field experience with planning and scheduling knowledge to identify challenges to the project schedule and suggest mitigation plans.
• Manage and prepare schedule risk analysis to forecast contingencies, to implement contingency management and be familiar with current simulation techniques.
• Establish and maintain technical standards to support quality planning and scheduling and ongoing capability advancement and professional development of departments, teams and individuals.

You Have

• A degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or related technical field or National Level NVQ5 or equivalent working knowledge. An active membership in at least one professional body or association demonstrating continual professional development is desirable.
• Experience of leading a planning team, developing a positive working atmosphere and actively motivating peers and junior staff.
• Experience of planning on large scale, complex projects throughout the project lifecycle and ideally trained in NEC3 contract management with focus on planning requirements highly desirable.
• A discernible understanding of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s business areas, the energy industry, gained from experience as well as through social and professional networking.
• Prior demonstrable implementation and effective use of company standard planning and scheduling systems and project or program specific planning and scheduling systems (e.g. Primavera P6).

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

Benefits

• 34 days of annual leave with the option to purchase up to 10 days holiday
• 24/7 free and confidential employee counselling service
• Sharesave Scheme
• Private healthcare discounts
• Subsidised gym memberships
• Generous family entitlements including adoption leave, paternity leave and gradual return to work for new parents
• Flexible working opportunities
• Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets
• And much more…

Application Instructions

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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