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Project Planner – Transmission Networks (Hybrid), M Group Energy
M Group Energy is renewing essential infrastructure across the energy sector, empowering growth while prioritising safety, customer service, and career development. Join our Transmission & Renewables team to transform how we deliver electricity — from overhead lines at 400kV to substations and renewable networks.
This hands-on hybrid role (3 days on-site across Glasgow & Aberdeen) blends programme management with field leadership. As a Project Planner, you’ll shape projects from conception to delivery, driving excellence in planning, risk management, and-value while working within a team that thrives on collaboration and accountability.
Where Will You Be Working?
We operate end-to-end energy solutions:
- Transmission & distribution networks
- Renewable energy integration
- EV infrastructure
- Metering & home decarbonisation
Our Transmission & Renewables team specialises in designing, building, and commissioning overhead lines up to 400kV. Teams construct and maintain transmission networks, ensuring reliable energy delivery — of critical importance to life.
With electricity now supporting everything from homes to Smart Grids, we shape the future of infrastructure. Join us to deliver it with expertise and innovation.
The Role: What You’ll Do
As Project Planner, you’ll drive strategic planning, efficiency, and programme integrity across construction and operational projects. Your work will span:
- Hybrid development and value:
- Build, optimize, and execute real-time construction plans, trackers, and reports.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align timing with resources, outages, consents, and permits.
- ** üstive leadership**:
- Lead weekly progress check-ins with the Project/Construction Manager and Site Engineers.
- Monitor contract compliance, KPIs, and economic safety benchmarks.
- Integrated systems:
- Work with the Head of Commercial to integrate our cost management tools.
- Develop robust change management processes, risk registers, and EVM/SPI reporting.
- Strategic foresight:
- Represent the team at tenderer meetings, client negotiations, and regulatory sandboxes.
- Provide benchmarking insights to boost value and cost-efficiency.
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Responsibilities
- Develop & adhere to plans: Deliver thorough project programmes across design, procurement, and construction. Stay adaptive, updating timelines as required.
- Effective collaboration: Engage with Project Managers, Site Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, Buyers and Hes.
- Tender and tender stage plans: Align planning inputs with conceptualisation, bidding, and build readings.
- Client relations: Attend external meetings to ensure deadlines and client expectations are met.
- Benchmark excellence: Gather cost-performance indicators, identify best practices across projects.
- Risk, Issue & Opportunity Management (RIO): Coordinate risk registers with other stakeholders, ensuring problems are proactively addressed.
- Continuous improvement: Monitor new methodologies, tech (AI/automation), and best practices to enhance unit efficiency.
- Company-wide sync: Contribute planning standards that align with operational and commercial goals. Champion best-practice in a hybrid work model.
- Team integration: Drive collaboration across planning, systems, commercial, and operational teams. Represent the financial and technical alignment across projects.
- Strategic alignment: Help shape future roadmaps and objectives with broader teams.
What You’ll Bring
- Core requirements:
- ✅ Full UK driving licence (required for road access & site mobility).
- ✅ Competency with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
- ✅ Experience in Earned Value Management (EVM) and knowledge of NEC contracts.
- Enhancing factors:
- Experience in change management systems and processes.
- Background in energy, grid infrastructure, or construction project planning.
- Proactive mindsets welcomed:
- Analytical drive.
- Collaborative ethos in pursuing technical excellence.
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How We Support You
Career progression, health, life, and wellbeing are at the core of M Group employee service. You’ll receive:
- Career currency: Support through M Group’s industry aligned training & development programs for trainees, graduates, and veterans.
- Family friendly benefits:
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Digital 24/7 online GP service and Employee Assistance Program.
- Modern rewards:
- Salary-sacrifice electric/hybrid vehicle scheme (My Car Choice).
- Luxury company cars with a fleet of EV/ hybrid options.
- Portals for cash plans, awards, and virtual feedback recognised.
- Critical support:
- Discounts from retail, tech and dining partners.
- Life assurance and private health insurance.
Why M Group
Stand out as a company:
- Recognised as one of the Top 100 UK employers for Army veterans.
- M Group values shape how we deliver:
- We’re responsible, going further for our communities and environment.
- Open to disrupt — seeking smart ways to exceed expectations.
- Together — collaborative, in a team culture that grows the whole.
- Ambitious — pivot culture to embrace and own essential infrastructure challenges.
Welcome to a growing team. Whether at the start of your journey or establishing careers across our estates, we believe in your potential and will help you thrive.
M Group invites you to apply as soon as possible to secure your place. Occasionally roles close early — don’t miss out.
Note: For this role:
- Successful candidates will be subject to third-party background checks.
- Sub-drug and -alcohol testing is part of the onboarding.
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