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Overview
AtkinsRéalis is a world-leading design, engineering, and project management organisation. We connect people, data, and technology to transform infrastructure and energy systems across the globe. Our purpose is simple: to engineer a better future for our planet and its people, creating sustainable solutions that shape the world around us. Our teams deliver some of the most complex and transformative programmes worldwide. By combining multidisciplinary expertise, global best practice, and deep sector knowledge, we help clients achieve ambitious outcomes. Our success is powered by talented people whose diverse thinking and creativity drive innovation every day.
Due to the growth of our Project Controls pipeline, we are seeking a Planner to join our Programme Services, Advisory & Controls (P-SAC) Practice as a Planner to work on large programmes of work. The role will require delivering planning, scheduling, and progress management services across a large complex programme, ensuring fully integrated, risk-informed, quality-assured schedules that support decision-making, Earned Value Management, and programme governance.
Your role
You will have the capability to develop, maintain, and govern complex, multi-project schedules within an enterprise environment, to include:
- Building and managing programmes, projects, and contractor schedules within Primavera P6 EPPM to consistent standards.
- Structuring schedules in accordance with approved Work Breakdown Structures, coding conventions, and Project Controls Management Plans.
- Integrating Sub-Project schedules into a coherent Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) with cross-project dependencies.
- Maintaining fully resourced and cost-loaded schedules enabling accurate forecasting and performance analysis.
- Establishing and maintaining formally approved schedule baselines for Sub-Projects and the Programme.
- Maintaining a full schedule baseline register with version control and traceability.
- Ensuring all approvals, justifications, and impact analyses are recorded.
- Managing Programme, Interface, and Critical Path Milestone Registers.
- Ensuring all milestones are kept up to date in P6 and the Document Management System.
- Providing weekly analysis of milestone performance, variance drivers, and recovery actions.
- Ensuring clear visibility of strategic decision points and external dependencies.
- Ensuring schedules are resource and cost-loaded.
- Generating and interpreting EVM metrics including PV, EV, AC, CPI, SPI.
- Identifying performance trends and variance drivers for monthly reporting.
- Using dashboard (e.g., Power BI) to provide clear, visual insights for stakeholders.
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About you
You will be a confident communicator and have the ability to clearly explain complex schedule information to an array of stakeholders across functions and contractors.
You will be able to:
- Provide clear narrative reporting on variances, trends, and schedule risks.
- Work collaboratively with Document Control, Cost, Risk, Engineering, and Delivery teams.
- Support decision-making by presenting options, impacts, and recommendations.
- Escalate issues early with clear analysis and recovery proposals.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards, and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial, and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
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About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers, and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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Additional information
Security clearance
This role may require security clearance, and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role, please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive, and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.
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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
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