Project Planner

About the role

Programme support

• Assist with programmes covering design, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, installation, and commissioning.
• Update planning systems with approved progress, dates, durations, and forecasts; maintain look-ahead schedules, milestones, and action logs.
• Keep schedule information structured, version-controlled, and issued on agreed reporting cycles.

Progress and coordination

• Collect weekly progress updates from project, design, supply chain, manufacturing, and site teams; check submissions and follow up missing or inconsistent data.
• Prepare progress reports, charts, and dashboards showing actual and planned progress, milestones, and upcoming activities.
• Escalate slippage, constraints, and interface issues to the Project Planner or Planning Manager.
• Coordinate project teams, align manufacturing and delivery dates with site readiness, and maintain tender handover and mobilisation inputs.

Controls and team support

• Maintain programme registers, calendars, coding structures, baseline records, revisions, and accurate records for project controls and contractual reporting.
• Assist with critical-path, float, and variance reviews and support recovery or mitigation schedules agreed by project leadership.
• Use company templates and procedures; help improve trackers and dashboard data, share lessons learned, and participate in training.

Qualifications and experience

• A diploma or degree in construction management, civil engineering, project management, quantity surveying, manufacturing, operations, or a related discipline is required; equivalent practical experience is considered.
• Approximately 1–3 years of relevant experience is desirable; strong graduates with relevant placements or internships may also be considered.
• Data centre, mission-critical construction, modular manufacturing, or installation project exposure is advantageous.

Technical skills

• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint capability is required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project is desirable; Primavera P6 exposure is advantageous, and training can be provided.
• Basic understanding of programmes, milestones, dependencies, critical path, progress measurement, and look-ahead planning is required.
• Awareness of design, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, or site delivery interfaces is beneficial.

Competencies and success measures

• The planner should be organised, accurate, attentive to detail, and able to coordinate information, follow up actions, challenge data constructively, and escalate issues promptly.
• The role requires working independently on assigned tasks and contributing to a multidisciplinary team while developing planning and project-controls skills.
• Success includes timely progress data, accurate programme updates and records, early escalation of risks, and consistent reporting standards.

Development opportunity

• The role offers a development route toward Project Planner, including schedule creation, progress measurement, critical-path awareness, resource planning, reporting, and integration of factory output with site delivery.

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