Planner

About IEIS

IEIS is a specialist engineering services business working across water, utilities, energy, and petrochemical sectors. Set up nine years ago and growing rapidly, they deliver projects spanning weeks through to years -- from pipe and steel design and fabrication through to full installation. They're a medium-sized business with a family feel, where people grow with the company rather than getting managed from above it.

The Role

This is a newly created permanent Planner position, brought in to strengthen the core team as IEIS moves away from relying solely on contractors. You'll work across all live projects -- short-burst reactive work and longer multi-month programmes -- reporting directly into the operational leadership team. The measure of success in this role isn't just keeping programmes up to date; it's knowing what's coming before anyone else does and making sure the business can act on it.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll:

• Prepare and maintain baseline, tender, and contract programmes compliant with NEC, IChemE, and EPC/ME&I contracts
• Own the Accepted / Approved Programme and keep it aligned with contractual obligations and change mechanisms
• Manage an integrated business-wide programme linking all project programmes to give directors visibility of time, cost, and resource
• Demonstrate critical path, float, constraints, and assumptions across live programmes
• Support Early Warnings, Compensation Events, variations, and Extension of Time submissions
• Assess time impact of design changes, late information, access restrictions, and third-party delay
• Produce progress reports, dashboards, and programme narratives for internal and client use
• Maintain rolling lookahead programmes to support site delivery teams
• Flag issues before they become problems -- proactively, not reactively