RTS Infrastructure Services Limited
Senior Project Planner
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Senior Project Planner
Location: Holbeck Depot, Leeds
Hours: 40 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Help Shape the Future of Rail Infrastructure
RTS Infrastructure is a trusted provider of rail infrastructure, construction, and depot services across the UK. Based in Leeds, we work with major rail industry clients, delivering projects that keep the UK's rail network moving. Following our acquisition by Arriva Group, we're entering an exciting new chapter of growth, investment, and opportunity as part of one of Europe's leading passenger transport organizations.
We're looking for an experienced Senior Project Planner to join our growing project delivery team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced planning professional to play a critical role in the successful delivery of rail infrastructure projects by developing, managing, and controlling project programs from mobilization through to project close-out.
Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you'll work closely with project, construction, engineering, and commercial teams to provide effective planning support, identify program risks and opportunities, and ensure accurate reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
Why Join RTS Infrastructure?
As part of Arriva Group, you'll be joining a business with ambitious growth plans in the UK rail sector. Our recent acquisition strengthens our position within rail infrastructure, broadens our service offering, and creates exciting opportunities for our people and our customers.
This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape the delivery of major rail infrastructure projects while developing your career within a growing organization backed by one of Europe's leading transport groups.
What You'll Be Doing
- Develop, manage, and maintain integrated project programs for rail infrastructure projects.
- Produce baseline, target, and update programs in line with client and project requirements.
- Develop programs that accurately reflect project scope, construction methodologies, resources, possessions, testing, commissioning, and handback activities.
- Establish and maintain program logic, key milestones, constraints, and critical interfaces.
- Monitor project progress and ensure programs accurately reflect delivery status.
- Identify program risks, delays, constraints, and opportunities at an early stage.
- Work closely with project teams to develop mitigation, recovery, and acceleration plans.
- Undertake critical path analysis and provide program impact assessments.
- Coordinate program requirements across engineering disciplines, suppliers, and subcontractors.
- Support construction planning, mobilization, testing, commissioning, and handback activities.
- Review subcontractor and supplier programs to ensure alignment with project objectives.
- Produce program reports, dashboards, narratives, and management information.
- Support project controls, commercial management, and change management processes.
- Assist with delay analysis, variations, compensation events, and time impact assessments.
- Facilitate planning workshops and program review meetings with project stakeholders.
- Provide planning expertise and professional advice to support project decision-making.
- Promote safe delivery by ensuring program development considers access, possessions, isolations, testing, and assurance activities.
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What We're Looking For
- Significant experience in project planning within the rail, rail infrastructure, construction, or engineering sector.
- Strong experience developing and maintaining detailed project programs throughout construction and delivery phases.
- Advanced working knowledge of Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.
- Experience producing and analyzing critical path programs.
- Experience identifying program risks, opportunities, and recovery strategies.
- Strong understanding of program controls, progress measurement, and project reporting.
- Experience integrating subcontractor and supply chain programs.
- Experience providing program impact assessments relating to delay, change, and variations.
- Strong understanding of project sequencing, construction activities, and multidisciplinary project interfaces.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, scopes of work, and construction methodologies.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present program information to a range of stakeholders.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
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Desirable
- Degree, HNC/HND, or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Planning, or a related discipline.
- APM PMQ or equivalent qualification.
- Primavera P6 Professional Certification.
- Membership of APM, ICE, CILT, or another relevant professional institution.
- Experience working on Network Rail infrastructure projects.
- Understanding of Network Rail governance, PACE, and project delivery processes.
- Knowledge of NEC contracts and program requirements.
- Experience in project controls, cost reporting, and change management.
- Experience mentoring or developing junior planners.
Benefits
- Membership of the Arriva Workplace Pension Scheme (3% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution)
- Life Assurance plus access to one of the UK's largest networks of medical professionals
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with opportunities to purchase additional holiday
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Access to discounts and cashback through The Village, our online reward gateway
- Eyecare vouchers
- Opportunity to join our Employee Experience Forum, helping shape wellbeing, career development, and community initiatives
- Arriva UK Trains Travel Pass
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you're an experienced planner looking to influence the successful delivery of major rail infrastructure projects, we'd love to hear from you. Join RTS Infrastructure and play a key role in helping deliver critical rail projects that keep the UK's railway moving.
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