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    • Lead and coordinate planning activities across multiple projects.
    • Drive continuous improvement in planning standards and processes.
    • Contribute to training and onboarding of planners.
    • Help drive continuous improvement across planning systems.
    • Rate:* £475 - £525 p/d (Inside IR35).
    • Strong understanding, with good experience of short interval control planning and delivery methodology.
    • Support and mentor junior team members where required,…
    • The team is seeking suitably experienced and capable individuals to work independently or with a Director to successfully shape, develop, initiate and deliver…
    • Skilled in the use of company cornerstone systems and able to represent cost data formats necessary to control the project.
    • Support resource planning to ensure project delivery aligns with available capacity.
    • Assist production teams in planning outages, shutdowns, and commissioning…
    • Support resource planning activities and ensure project schedules remain aligned with site conditions and client requirements.
    • Report regularly to regional planners and project leadership on programme status, risks, and progress.
    • Support and mentor assistant and graduate planners,…
    • Report regularly to regional planners and project leadership on programme status, risks, and progress.
    • Support and mentor assistant and graduate planners,…
    • Practical ability to utilise critical project management concepts (e.g., EVM, project planning, risk analysis, configuration management.
    • Support recruitment, succession planning, and capability growth aligned to business strategy.
    • Provide direction and assurance to delivery teams (data engineers,…
    • Participate in client planning workshops and schedule reviews.
    • Provide planning assurance in line with nuclear regulatory expectations.
    • The team is seeking suitably experienced and capable individuals to work independently or with a Director to successfully shape, develop, initiate and deliver…
    • Advanced appreciation of planning and scheduling, cost engineering, change control, risk, and opportunity management.
    • Support planning assurance reviews and project audits.
    • Facilitate planning workshops, progress reviews, and coordination meetings.

Job Post Details

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Lead P6 Planner - job post

M Group
2.9 out of 5 stars
Colchester
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Location

Colchester

Benefits

Pulled from the full job description

  • Referral programme
  • Annual leave
  • Employee discount
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Company pension
  • Private medical insurance
  • Cycle to work scheme

Full job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

Want to be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

This role is focused on providing control, consistency, and insight across multiple programmes, ensuring planning supports and actively drives delivery outcomes.

You'll work closely with Project Delivery Managers (PDMs), Project Engineers, and Commercial teams, the Planning Lead to ensure all programmes are robust, aligned to contractual requirements, and provide a clear basis for decision-making, while also leading and supporting planners to deliver consistent, high-quality outputs across the portfolio.

The role will act as the central point of accountability for planning across the framework.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate planning activities across multiple projects
  • Ensure consistency in programme structure, logic, and outputs
  • Oversee programme updates, reporting, and submissions
  • Identify risks, delays, and opportunities across the portfolio
  • Support and challenge delivery teams to ensure credible programmes
  • Produce clear, structured portfolio-level reporting
  • Lead, support, and develop planners within the team
  • Drive continuous improvement in planning standards and processes

What you’ll bring

  • Do you have strong proven experience using Primavera P6 and managing multiple programmes/projects?
  • Have you got a strong understanding of programme logic and sequencing?
  • Do you have the ability to communicate programme outputs clearly to stakeholders?
  • Are you someone who has a proactive approach with a focus on improving delivery outcomes?
  • Do you have experience working with and supporting delivery teams (PDMs / Engineers)?
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
  • Employee assistance programme
  • My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
  • Reward and recognition scheme
  • Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
In addition, this role offers;
  • Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
  • My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
  • Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
  • Private Healthcare - family cover
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

  • We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
  • We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
  • We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
  • We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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