Senior Planner

Role description: Our UK Resilience team is looking for Senior Planning Engineers with P6 experience to join our UK Water teams supporting frameworks in the regulated water industry. As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you'll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you'll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day. Our UK Resilience team works to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we're seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. As part of this role, there would be a requirement to travel to East Sussex 1-2 times per week. Role accountabilities: - Top-down strategic planning of project and programmes, working with teams to facilitate the definition of scope, breakdown structures, methodologies, dependencies, interfaces and risks. - Develop and implement planning and scheduling protocols in line with industry best practice, company standards and client requirements. - Schedule development, from initial high-level activity networks to structured, detailed and resourced working schedules - covering full project lifecycles. Similarly providing assurance of third-party project schedules to ensure compliance and fitness for purpose. - Establish approved baseline schedules and implement schedule performance monitoring and reporting, with controlled change management and clear communication to teams, clients and stakeholders of progress status and remaining works. - Advise on contractual procedures relating to contract schedules (i.e. NEC 3 Accepted Programme) and delays. Prepare and assess extension of time claims. - Provide valued and focused insight on schedule performance, going beyond checks and calculations, to ensure the project teams know and understand what they need to, are equipped to make informed decisions and are aware of any schedule risks and opportunities. - Promote cross-discipline engagement and collaboration to identify and resolve issues and facilitate team success. - Engage with internal and client stakeholders at a working and management level to develop positive relationships and provide relevant, concise information. - Use project plans and schedules to define and manage programme level inter-dependencies, constraints and interfaces. Take ownership for the communication and coordination of these items and facilitate a collaborative approach between project teams. - Plan and monitor capacity and resource requirements within schedules and liaise with relevant stakeholders. - Manage the schedule change control process, recording change history for audit purposes and all relevant business authorisations. - Undertake schedule risk analysis, working with teams to identify risks and opportunities, assess likelihood and impacts and develop mitigations. - Management and development of junior planning colleagues. - Active participation and contribution to communities and initiatives across the project and programme management service line and the wider Arcadis business. Qualifications & Experience: - Understanding and experience of the principles of project / programme management, design, engineering and construction. - Prior experience as a Senior Planner in a relevant industry sector. Water or energy experience is desirable. - Strong knowledge and experience of construction contracts, including NEC 3, with regards to scheduling / programming matters. - Prior experience with a contractor organisation is desirable (but not essential). - Experience of implementing industry best practice approaches to planning and scheduling. - Strong IT skills - Practitioner / advanced capability and experience in P6 (preferred), Asta or MS Project. - Practitioner / advanced capability and experience in Excel. - Comprehensive general skills across Office 365. - Further skills and experience of BIM and data visualisation / analytical tools is desirable. - Experience of preparing and presenting planning and scheduling outputs for varied audiences. - Confidence and acumen when speaking to project teams, clients and stakeholders. Ability to facilitate discussions between different disciplines, teams and parties. - Ability to work on tasks unsupervised whilst applying sound judgement to effectively collaborate and communicate with others. - Knowledge and experience of any planning and project controls methodologies is desirable (i.e. collaborative planning, EVM, short-term planning ('last planner'), agile planning, QSRA). - Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience. - Attained or working towards professional certification or chartered status