Description
Location: Peterborough (at least 3 working days required in office)
As our new Planner, you’ll take ownership of the project plan, drive the project team to deliver to the plan and challenge any delay and deviation. You will be a key member of a wholly collaborative team and will use your experience, enthusiasm and skills to help the team drive efficiency and outperformance.
What you'll be doing
Key responsibilities:
- Scope & Resource Planning to ensure project plans fully capture all deliverables and resource requirements.
- Risk & Opportunity Management by identifying potential risks, monitoring critical paths, and driving mitigation strategies to maintain project momentum.
- 4D Planning & Digital Rehearsals by creating advanced project animations to enhance construction planning and execution.
- Effective Communication to ensure all stakeholders understand, support, and align with the project strategy.
- Safety First Approach—embracing a mindset where "Nothing is so important that we cannot take the time to do it safely."
Who we're looking for
What we are looking for:
- Proven experience in civil engineering projects, ideally within the Water Industry.
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 and expertise in collaborative planning.
- Strong ability to interpret technical drawings and translate them into actionable plans.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information across diverse audiences.
- A solutions-focused mindset—adaptable, innovative, and committed to driving success.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
Job Reference: BBUK15352