PACE Global
Planning Manager
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Role: Planning Manager
Location: Leeds, York and Manchester (travel between all three sites required; hybrid working may be considered)
Contract Type: Permanent or Contract/Interim considered
Salary / Rate: Permanent: £70,000 - £85,000 per annum | Contract/Interim: £500 per day Inside IR35
Sector: Rail Infrastructure
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Planning Manager to support a major project in the Rail sector. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, monitoring and managing programme schedules across a major rail infrastructure scheme, working closely with design, engineering and client stakeholders across the Leeds, York and Manchester locations. This is a great opportunity for a planning professional with strong rail sector knowledge to contribute to one of the UK's most significant rail investment programmes.
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and update integrated programme schedules covering design, consents, procurement and delivery phases of the NPR scheme.
- Work collaboratively with design managers, engineers and project controls teams to ensure programme logic, dependencies and critical path are accurately reflected.
- Produce regular progress reports, schedule risk analyses and forecast updates for internal and client stakeholders.
- Identify and escalate schedule risks, delays and resourcing conflicts, proposing mitigation strategies where required.
- Support the wider planning function in benchmarking, lessons learned and continuous improvement of planning processes.
- Liaise with multi-disciplinary teams across Leeds, York and Manchester offices to ensure consistency of planning approach and data across the programme.
- Contribute to bid, tender or change control processes where planning input is required.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Essential Requirements
- Demonstrable experience working within the UK rail sector, ideally on major infrastructure or enhancement schemes.
- Strong working knowledge of planning software (e.g., Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject or similar).
- Experience managing programmes involving multi-disciplinary design and engineering teams.
- Right to work in the UK (evidence required as part of the application process).
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to present schedule information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Willingness and ability to travel between Leeds, York and Manchester as required.
“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
Location