Maxim Recruitment Limited
Senior Planner
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Senior Planner Job Opportunity
An excellent Senior Planner job opportunity is available with a leading construction consultancy in Bristol, supporting major infrastructure, energy, rail, highways, utilities, defence, nuclear, and aviation projects across the UK.
This Bristol-based Senior Planner role offers hybrid working, career development, and exposure to complex project controls and programme planning commissions.
Project Details
The successful Senior Planner will be based from the Bristol office and will support the delivery of complex and high-profile construction, infrastructure, and energy projects across the UK.
This Senior Planner job in Bristol will suit candidates based in Bristol, Bath, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Weston-super-Mare, Portishead, Clevedon, Yate, Thornbury, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Swindon, Newport, Cardiff, and other commutable locations across the South West and South Wales.
Projects may include major rail, highways, utilities, nuclear, defence, aviation, energy, and wider infrastructure programmes. The Senior Planner will help project teams and client organisations improve planning certainty, manage integrated project schedules, analyse programme performance, and support better decision-making across large and complex UK projects.
Responsibilities and Duties
The Senior Planner will play an important role in supporting the successful delivery of major projects and programmes. This is a strong opportunity for an experienced construction planner, planning engineer, or project controls professional based in or near Bristol who wants to work on complex and exciting UK infrastructure projects.
Key duties and responsibilities will include:
- Develop, manage, and assure fully integrated project and programme schedules
- Ensure project schedules have robust logic, sequencing, dependencies, and critical path integrity
- Lead planning input across bids, mobilisation, and project delivery phases
- Provide expert guidance on scheduling strategy, programme governance, and planning best practice
- Deliver high-quality schedule analysis, including critical path analysis, scenario planning, and "what if" modelling
- Identify programme risks, planning issues, delay risks, and mitigation options
- Integrate schedule, cost, and risk information to support wider project controls reporting
- Support Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis and related project controls activities
- Maintain schedule baselines and support effective change control processes
- Ensure project schedules accurately reflect scope, progress, change, and potential impacts
- Produce high-quality visual and written programme reports
- Prepare progress updates, variance analysis, Earned Value insights, and schedule performance commentary
- Communicate complex planning and project controls information clearly to clients, senior stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams
- Support consistency, best practice, and process improvement across the planning function
- Mentor junior planners and support the review and development of planning outputs
- Apply knowledge of NEC, JCT, FIDIC, and other construction contract forms to planning deliverables and reporting
- Operate effectively within a consultancy environment and ensure planning outputs meet client expectations and professional standards
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Desired Skills and Experience
The successful Senior Planner will need previous planning experience on complex construction, infrastructure, or multidisciplinary projects. This role is particularly suited to candidates in Bristol and the surrounding region with strong project controls, planning, and scheduling experience who are seeking Senior Planner jobs, Senior Planning Engineer jobs, or project controls consultancy roles.
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:
- Planning experience on complex construction, infrastructure, engineering, or multidisciplinary projects
- Strong proficiency with planning tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Asta Powerproject, or similar software
- Experience developing, maintaining, and assuring integrated project and programme schedules
- Strong understanding of critical path analysis, schedule logic, sequencing, and programme assurance
- Experience with schedule risk assessments, project controls reporting, and integrated schedule, cost, and risk analysis
- Knowledge of Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis would be highly desirable
- Experience producing Earned Value Management reporting and programme performance analysis
- Strong capability in baseline management, change control, and maintaining schedule integrity
- Ability to produce clear planning reports, visual dashboards, and senior stakeholder updates
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex planning information clearly
- Experience mentoring, guiding, or supporting junior planners would be advantageous
- Broad understanding of project controls disciplines and project lifecycle governance
- Good understanding of NEC, JCT, FIDIC, or similar contract requirements
- Experience working in a consultancy environment would be advantageous
- Experience in rail, highways, utilities, nuclear, defence, aviation, energy, or infrastructure projects would be highly desirable
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Qualifications/Educational Requirements
The successful Senior Planner should ideally have:
- A degree, diploma, or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject such as construction management, engineering, project management, quantity surveying, planning, project controls, or a related discipline
- Strong practical experience in construction planning, project controls, or programme management may also be considered
- Proficiency in Primavera P6, MS Project, Asta Powerproject, Open Plan, or similar planning software
- Membership, progress towards membership, or awareness of relevant professional bodies such as APM, CIOB, ICE, RICS, or similar would be advantageous
- Training or experience in Earned Value Management, Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis, or project controls would be desirable
Employing Company Overview and Profile
Maxim Recruitment is working with a leading construction consultancy to recruit a Senior Planner for a Bristol-based role supporting major infrastructure and project controls commissions across the UK. The employer delivers complex, high-value programmes across rail, highways, utilities, nuclear, defence, aviation, energy, and wider infrastructure sectors.
The organisation offers a collaborative working culture, exposure to major UK projects, and strong long-term career development for construction planning, project controls, and infrastructure professionals. This opportunity is particularly well suited to candidates seeking Senior Planner jobs in Bristol, construction planning jobs in Bristol, Senior Planning Engineer jobs in Bristol, project controls jobs in Bristol, or planning consultancy roles across the South West and South Wales.
A full client overview will be given to shortlisted candidates.
Additional Benefits Package and Incentives
- Competitive salary, negotiable depending on experience and seniority
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
- Bristol-based role working on major UK projects
- Opportunity to work on major UK infrastructure, energy, and construction projects
- Career development and professional training opportunities
- Opportunity to mentor junior planners and develop leadership capability
- Exposure to rail, highways, utilities, nuclear, defence, aviation, and energy sectors
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