Senior Project Planner

Senior Project Planner - Glasgow

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Project Planner to join a high-profile programme based in Glasgow. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the planning, scheduling, and controls functions of complex projects within a highly regulated environment.

Contract Details

Location: Glasgow (City Centre)
Contract Type: Inside IR35
Security Clearance: BPSS required initially, with eligibility to obtain SC Clearance
Eligibility Requirements:
British Citizen holding a valid British Passport
Must not have lived or worked outside the UK for any significant period during the last five years due to security clearance requirements

The Role

As a Senior Project Planner, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and analysing integrated project schedules to support successful programme delivery. Working closely with project teams and stakeholders, you will ensure robust planning processes are in place, providing accurate reporting, schedule analysis, and performance insights throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and maintain project structures including:

Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
Organisational Breakdown Structures (OBS)
Resource Breakdown Structures (RBS)
Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS)

Create, baseline, and maintain integrated project schedules (Levels 1-3), ensuring alignment with associated Level 4 and Level 5 schedules.

Ensure integration and consistency between scheduling tools and the organisations financial and material demand planning systems.

Perform regular schedule updates and analysis, providing key performance metrics including:
Critical Path Analysis
Total Float Analysis
Schedule Performance Reporting
Impact Assessments

Produce and maintain:
Schedule Risk Analysis
Schedule Variance Reporting
Resource Profiles
Earned Value Management (EVM) Data
Scheduling Maturity Assessments
Planning and Controls Framework Reporting
Archived Schedule Records

Support effective resource planning and utilisation to meet project objectives and customer commitments.

Identify, manage, and communicate project risks, issues, and opportunities.

Contribute to and monitor quality management processes, ensuring compliance with organisational standards and project requirements.

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and communicate requirements, priorities, and project impacts.

Proactively assess risks and implement mitigation strategies to minimise project disruption.

Experience, Qualifications & Skills
Essential Experience

Extensive recent experience in a Senior Planning or Project Controls role within a complex engineering, construction, infrastructure, defence, or similar project environment.

Strong understanding of project planning across the full project lifecycle, from bid and tender stage through delivery and project close-out.

Advanced expertise in scheduling software such as:
Primavera P6
Microsoft Project (MSP)

Experience in:
Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis
Forensic Planning
Earned Value Management (EVM)
Critical Path Analysis
Resource Planning and Forecasting
Schedule Performance Analysis

Knowledge of industry-standard contract frameworks such as:
NEC
FIDIC
JCT

Qualifications
Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in:
Engineering
Project Management
Construction Management
Or a related discipline

Professional qualification or membership such as:
APM
AcostE
RICS
Or equivalent
Technical Knowledge & Competencies

Advanced Expertise
Schedule Management
Development, baselining, maintenance, and monitoring of integrated project schedules to support informed decision-making and project delivery.
Resource Management
Identification, planning, and optimisation of resources including personnel, facilities, materials, and equipment throughout the programme lifecycle.

Strong Working Knowledge
Budgeting & Cost Control
Managing project budgets, forecasts, and actual costs against approved baselines, including the application of performance measures and tolerance management.

Project Reviews
Understanding and application of legal, regulatory, and organisational review requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

Change Control
Establishing and maintaining robust change control processes to effectively manage project scope, schedule, and cost impacts.

Contract Management
Understanding contract structures, statements of work, supplier obligations, and commercial implications for both contracting organisations and delivery partners.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled Project Planner to contribute to complex, high-value programmes while working within a collaborative and professional project controls environment.