Costain Group
Planning Manager
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Planning Manager
Responsibilities
Role
The Strategic Planning Manager will lead the development, transformation, and continuous improvement of the SCS Planning Function, ensuring planning remains a key enabler of project delivery, programme assurance, change management, and project completion.
The role will act as a strategic partner to the Head of Planning, Delivery Units, Project Controls, Risk, Commercial, Technical Services, and PMO teams to ensure planning standards, governance, reporting, and systems are consistently applied across SCS.
The Strategic Planning Manager will be responsible for:
- Supporting development and implementation of the SCS Planning Strategy and Planning Improvement Roadmap.
- Leading the transition of planning processes and governance arrangements to align with the Delivery Unit (DU) structure.
- Assessing and recommending improvements to:
- Clause 32 processes
- Programme reviews
- Planning governance
- Reporting frameworks
- P6 structures
- Planning assurance requirements
- Developing long-term improvement initiatives that support successful project delivery and completion.
- Acting as a trusted advisor to the Head of Planning on planning strategies.
Planning Transformation and Continuous Improvement
- Driving the implementation of a "One Planning Team" approach across SCS.
- Developing and maintaining consistent:
- Planning procedures
- Standards
- Templates
- Working methodologies
- Assurance arrangements
- Leading planning lessons learned, best practice reviews, and maturity assessments.
- Facilitating planning workshops, collaboration forums, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Promoting consistency of planning outputs, reporting, and programme management practices across all Delivery Units.
- Leading the development of modern planning solutions and digital reporting capabilities.
- Collaborating with IT and Data teams to:
- Enhance reporting through Power BI
- Develop data warehouse integration
- Improve planning automation
- Reduce manual reporting effort
- Investigating and implementing AI opportunities within planning, reporting, and project controls.
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Required Experience, Qualifications & Skills
- Significant experience in planning and project controls within major infrastructure projects.
- Extensive knowledge of NEC contracts and programme management.
- Experience in:
- Clause 32 programme submissions
- Programme governance
- Change management
- PMO integration
- Risk management
- Reporting development
- Advanced Primavera P6 capability.
- Experience developing planning standards and procedures.
- Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
- Degree qualified in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, or similar discipline.
About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation; and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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