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Job Description
Lead Project Planner – AC Substations | Grid Solutions | Stafford, United Kingdom
Do you thrive on turning complex project schedules into clear, actionable plans that keep major infrastructure projects on track?
GE Vernova is looking for an experienced Lead Project Planner – Alternating Current Substations to join our Grid Solutions team in Stafford. You will take ownership of planning and scheduling for complex electrical substation and transmission projects, helping project teams anticipate constraints, manage interfaces, and deliver against their contractual commitments.
GE Vernova – The Energy to Change the World
With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonise it.
Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, and quality of life.
Electrification
Our Electrification businesses develop solutions that modernise grids, enable renewable energy integration, and strengthen energy systems.
As part of Grid Solutions, you will contribute to the delivery of critical transmission infrastructure that keeps power flowing reliably across the United Kingdom and beyond.
Let’s Talk About the Role
As Lead Project Planner – AC Substations, you will take full responsibility for the planning output of your assigned project or projects, working closely with the Project Manager and wider project team.
You will develop and maintain integrated Primavera P6 schedules covering engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning. You will challenge progress, identify risks and constraints, develop mitigation plans, and provide clear schedule insight to customers and internal stakeholders.
This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong technical understanding, analytical capability, and the confidence to influence teams across multiple functions.
How You Will Make a Difference
- Develop and secure approval of integrated project baseline schedules that reflect contractual milestones, technical sequencing, resource requirements, and key interfaces.
- Maintain and regularly update project schedules and resource forecasts throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure activity durations, dependencies, prerequisites, and schedule logic are understood and agreed by task and resource owners.
- Lead progress reviews, challenge forecasts, and work with project teams to develop mitigation, recovery, and catch-up plans.
- Identify blockers, critical-path risks, and emerging schedule trends, escalating issues before they affect key milestones.
- Analyse schedule performance using measures such as critical-path analysis, schedule variance, S-curves, on-time delivery, productivity, resource loading, and Say/Do ratios.
- Develop “what-if” scenarios and alternative execution strategies to optimise project delivery, durations, and resource use.
- Prepare clear internal and customer schedule reports and present project status, trends, forecasts, and recommendations during project and management reviews.
- Communicate directly with customers, suppliers, consortium partners, and other third parties on scheduling matters.
- Maintain project schedule interfaces and ensure external dependencies and delivery commitments are accurately reflected.
- Work with Risk Managers and Cost Controllers to align schedule, risk, cost phasing, and financial forecasts.
- Assess the schedule implications of changes and variation orders and support delay analysis, extension-of-time claims, and dispute-related activities where required.
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Skills for Success
You will bring:
- Strong hands-on experience using Primavera P6 to build, maintain, and analyse complex integrated project schedules.
- Experience planning EPC, turnkey, infrastructure, transmission, or similarly complex engineering projects.
- Experience supporting electrical substation projects or a closely related transmission environment.
- Understanding of project sequencing across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning.
- Knowledge of critical-path methodology, schedule logic, progress measurement, forecasting, and resource loading.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex schedule information into clear conclusions and recommendations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and influence stakeholders.
- A proactive, solution-focused approach, with the ability to anticipate constraints and drive agreed actions.
- The ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and provide accurate and reliable planning information.
- A collaborative, resilient, and customer-focused approach.
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Qualifications and Preferred Experience
A degree in engineering, project management, or a related discipline, or equivalent knowledge and experience gained through a relevant career, would be beneficial.
Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:
- AC electrical substations or transmission projects.
- HVDC converter station projects.
- Large, complex, or international project environments.
- NEC3, NEC4, or FIDIC contracts.
- Quantitative schedule risk analysis.
- Cost and schedule integration.
- Delay analysis, forensic planning, or extension-of-time claims.
Special Role Requirements
Some travel to project sites, customer locations, and other GE Vernova offices may be required from time to time.
Where and How You Will Work
This is a permanent position based in our Stafford office, with a hybrid working model providing flexibility to work from both the office and home, subject to business and project requirements.
Our Culture
Every action shapes our future. That is why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve.
Our mission at GE Vernova is to continue electrifying the world while working to decarbonise it. Our technology helps generate approximately 25% of the world’s electricity today, and we are working to power the rest.
Join us and help shape a different future for energy. Together, we are the Energy of Change.
We’re Determined to Be the Best Place to Grow
We believe strong careers are built through meaningful experiences, supportive relationships, and continuous development.
We are committed to providing the tools, opportunities, and support you need to shape a career that reflects your personal and professional goals, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Inclusion and Diversity
We are passionate about creating an inclusive working environment where the ideas and contributions of a diverse workforce are valued.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, GE Vernova is committed to providing equal opportunities for colleagues and applicants alike.
Join us at GE Vernova, where results are achieved by embracing a community of belonging.
Additional Information
- Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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