GTS Group Ltd
Senior Project Planner - Rail
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Senior Project Planner – Rail Infrastructure
£77,000 + Bonus
Derby - Hybrid
An established rail infrastructure business is seeking a Senior Project Planner to lead planning and project controls across major projects or a portfolio of smaller schemes.
You’ll be a key member of the project delivery team, supporting senior project and programme managers to plan and control delivery. You’ll also contribute to business planning, help ensure projects are properly resourced, promote best practice and mentor junior planners.
What you’ll do
- Lead planning and project controls for the projects in your portfolio.
- Provide expert guidance on planning standards, procedures, templates and best practice.
- Develop and maintain project plans in line with established project management and planning processes.
- Work with project, commercial and finance managers to develop accurate, resource-loaded and cost-loaded schedules.
- Coordinate with site and possession planners to align their plans with the main project schedule.
- Work with bid and tender teams to develop tender plans and support their transition into mobilisation and contract delivery.
- Build effective relationships with clients and project stakeholders, working collaboratively to find practical planning solutions.
- Analyse critical paths and advise project teams on risks, concerns and recovery options.
- Provide reporting on KPIs, earned value, schedule delays and critical path performance.
- Assess potential project changes through scenario modelling and analysis of risks, costs, resources and programme impacts.
- Support continuous improvement in planning and project controls.
- Mentor and coach less experienced planners.
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- Experience planning major infrastructure projects, ideally within the rail sector.
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders, both internally and on the client side.
- Advanced Primavera P6 skills, with experience using other planning tools such as Microsoft Project.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- A self-motivated and confident approach, with the ability to influence project teams.
- A technical, engineering or business background; knowledge of railway signalling would be an advantage.
- Experience leading a planning team on major infrastructure projects.
This is an opportunity to take a senior role in the planning of complex rail infrastructure projects, contribute to strong project delivery and help develop planning capability across the business.
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