Senior Planner

Overview

In this Senior Planner role, you provide expert planning capability for UK/IRE rail and infrastructure projects, ensuring robust, cost- and resource-loaded programmes. You will lead and mentor the planning team, maintain strong client relationships, and present clear project performance data. You drive scheduling integrity, risk identification, and change control across the project lifecycle. This position offers impact through shaping schedules, risk mitigation, and cross-functional collaboration within a performance-driven team.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive remuneration package including a bonus
• private healthcare
• electric car scheme
• flexible benefits to suit lifestyle
• hybrid working
• SYSTRA Wellness Programme and paid charity days

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning function on bids and live projects to produce compliant, robust programmes
• Mentor and guide junior team members and early career professionals
• Maintain regular client contact and represent Project Controls in meetings
• Develop cost-loaded and resource-loaded programmes covering full project scope
• Provide timely project performance data, schedules, and control reports
• Identify risks, deviations, and slippages; communicate issues to senior leadership
• Coordinate internal and third-party interfaces and manage key milestones
• Conduct schedule risk analysis and present trends; support earned value management
• Ensure baseline programmes are accepted and support change management
• Deliver professional planning materials for bids and projects within required timescales
• Coach and develop team skills and ensure adherence to planning processes

Key requirements

• Strong experience in planning within the UK Rail and infrastructure sectors
• Competent user of Primavera P6
• HNC or degree in a relevant industry subject
• Willingness to travel to client sites and SYSTRA offices
• Strong leadership and mentoring capability
• Good commercial awareness and client-facing effectiveness
• Experience producing cost-loaded and resource-loaded programmes
• Knowledge of project controls, earned value management, schedule risk analysis and reporting
• Ability to work in a dynamic, high-performance team
• Flexibility to work long hours when required

• leadership
• mentoring and coaching
• excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Primavera P6
• cost-loaded and resource-loaded programmes
• earned value management (EVM)

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