How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Planner
Application Deadline: 27 August 2026
Department: Projects
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Sunderland
Description
Our Business
pxFairport (pxF) is a project delivery specialist offering full turnkey EPC and OEM solutions to the bulk material handling and plant processing markets. Our services cover the aggregates, processing, tunnelling, mining, quarrying, alternative fuels, waste-to-energy, ports, and food sectors, globally. With unrivalled industry expertise, pxF manages, specifies, engineers, designs, supplies, installs, operates, and maintains market leading equipment for complex material handling needs, guaranteeing performance excellence, reliability, and optimal operating costs.
The Opportunity
We are now recruiting for a Planner.
You’ll be supported with personalised on the job training, coaching, mentoring and twice-yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain & develop your contributions and competence.
Key Responsibilities
- Support planning sessions and workshops with Project Managers to identify key deliverables, develop the work breakdown structure and agree appropriate schedule logic.
- Create, maintain and update detailed project schedules in line with agreed planning standards and project requirements.
- Work with Project Managers, Project Engineers, Department Managers and other stakeholders to obtain progress updates, activity durations, resource requirements and supporting information.
- Resource-load schedules using the shared resource pool and highlight potential resource conflicts, over-allocation or under-utilisation to the Planning Manager.
- Review schedule logic, constraints, critical and near-critical paths, raising gaps or inconsistencies for resolution.
- Update project progress accurately and support weekly and monthly schedule reviews, ensuring slippage, risks and emerging issues are clearly identified.
- Produce planning reports and schedule outputs, including look-ahead plans, milestone reports, S-curves and baseline variance information.
- Support the identification of corrective actions and recovery options where progress is behind plan.
- Maintain schedule baselines and assist with re-baselining following approved scope changes, ensuring change control requirements are followed.
- Prepare tailored schedule updates and planning information for project reports, client reports, meetings and presentations.
- Keep planning records, assumptions and supporting data accurate, current and auditable.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
More details can be found on the role profile.
Minimum Requirements:
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
- Experience in a planning, project controls or project support role, ideally within a construction or engineering environment.
- Working knowledge of planning principles, including work breakdown structures, dependencies, logic, baselines, progress measurement and critical path.
- Experience of using Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project to create and maintain project schedules.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Able to interpret project information and identify where schedule data, logic or progress may not be accurate or complete.
What you will receive from us:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Contribution towards eye test and glasses
- Online company discount benefits site including cinema tickets and gym membership discount
- Long Service Awards
- Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible Benefits Package
- Onsite parking
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills