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Senior Planner
🚀 Senior Project Planner – Rail Infrastructure
📍 Manchester or Birmingham | 🏠 Hybrid Working | 💰 Competitive Salary + Benefits
What if your next role gave you the opportunity to shape the future of rail infrastructure while building and leading a planning function that's central to project success?
I'm working with a growing rail consultancy looking to appoint a Senior Project Planner to play a pivotal role in delivering complex infrastructure projects while developing and expanding its planning capability.
This is more than a planning role. You'll influence business strategy, work alongside senior leadership, and become a trusted advisor to project teams and clients, ensuring programmes are robust, achievable, and drive successful project delivery.
🔧 The Role:
- Lead and develop the rail planning function, driving continuous improvement and best practice
- Create and maintain complex project programmes, ensuring clear logic, accuracy, and quality
- Monitor project progress, identifying critical path activities and programme risks
- Develop resource, materials, cost, and schedule plans to support successful delivery
- Prepare risk and mitigation plans to proactively manage project challenges
- Support contract administration, tender planning, programme reviews, and post-award monitoring
- Work closely with Project Managers and Project Services teams to provide programme insights and reporting
- Evaluate programme impacts arising from design, procurement, and delivery decisions
- Produce planning reports and dashboards to support informed decision-making
- Engage with stakeholders across the business to strengthen client delivery and planning capability
- Drive consistency, planning standards, and best practice across the organisation
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👤 What You'll Need:
- Proven experience as a Project Planner within the rail or infrastructure sector
- Strong background in developing and managing complex project programmes
- Experience identifying critical path activities and monitoring project performance
- Knowledge of project controls, contract administration, and programme management
- Strong understanding of project risk management and mitigation planning
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment
- Leadership experience or a desire to build and develop a planning team
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach with strong commercial awareness
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🎯 Why Apply?
- Opportunity to lead and grow an established rail planning function 📈
- Work on high-profile rail and infrastructure projects across the UK 🚆
- Join a collaborative consultancy where you'll work closely with senior leadership
- Influence project strategy from tender stage through to delivery
- Flexible hybrid working based from Manchester or Birmingham 🏠
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
💬 Interested in learning more? Apply today or get in touch for a confidential discussion.
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