Project Planner (SC Cleared) in Reading, Berkshire

Project Planner (SC Cleared)

Job Title: Project Planner (SC Cleared)
Location: Reading
Duration: 6-Month Contract
Security Clearance: Current SC Clearance Essential
Sector: Nuclear Defence

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Planner with advanced Primavera P6 expertise to support a high-profile project within the UK nuclear defence sector. Due to the nature of the work, details of the specific project cannot be disclosed. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and controlling project schedules, ensuring programme performance and delivery against key milestones within a highly regulated environment.

Candidates must hold active SC Clearance and have previous experience operating within complex engineering, defence, nuclear, or similarly regulated industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project schedules using Primavera P6.
• Produce and update project programmes, resource-loaded schedules, and critical path analyses.
• Monitor progress against agreed baselines and identify schedule risks, constraints, and opportunities.
• Support project controls activities, including forecasting, milestone tracking, and performance reporting.
• Engage with project managers, engineering teams, commercial teams, and key stakeholders to ensure programme alignment.
• Conduct schedule health checks and ensure planning best practice is applied throughout the project lifecycle.
• Generate look-ahead plans, progress reports, recovery plans, and impact assessments where required.
• Support risk management activities by assessing the programme implications of identified risks and changes.
• Facilitate planning workshops and coordinate programme updates across multiple stakeholders.
• Operate within strict governance, security, and quality procedures appropriate to the defence environment.

Essential Requirements

• Current active SC Clearance.
• Significant experience as a Project Planner within complex engineering or infrastructure programmes.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Proven experience producing and managing integrated project schedules.
• Strong understanding of project controls, planning methodologies, and schedule management principles.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities.

Desirable Requirements

• Previous experience working on AWE programmes.
• Nuclear sector experience.
• Defence, MOD, or national security project experience.
• Experience working within major capital projects or complex engineering programmes.
• Knowledge of risk management, earned value management (EVM), and project controls processes.

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