Project Planner
Role Overview
The Planner joins the Power Division Planning Team and works with the Pre-Construction Civils Director, other planners, and Project Delivery Teams.
The role develops, maintains, and monitors programme solutions across tender and delivery phases, including programmes, resource and cost allocations, reporting, and site-based planning.
Office or site attendance is required for at least three days per week.
Key Skills for This Role
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About JSM Group
JSM Group designs and installs power networks, digital infrastructure, and specialist systems, including grid connections, utilities, data centres, and renewable energy infrastructure.
Role and team
The Planner joins the Power Division Planning Team and works with the Pre-Construction Civils Director, other planners, and Project Delivery Teams.
The role develops, maintains, and monitors programme solutions across tender and delivery phases, including programmes, resource and cost allocations, reporting, and site-based planning.
Office or site attendance is required for at least three days per week.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate planning workshops and project meetings, developing robust programmes with project teams, clients, subcontractors, and stakeholders.
- Develop, maintain, manage, and validate construction programmes; identify activities, dependencies, critical paths, risks, opportunities, constraints, and time risk allowances.
- Provide progress updates, programme reviews, reporting, critical path analysis, earned value performance reporting, and recovery plans.
- Visit sites and conduct virtual reviews; update programmes and prepare monthly reports.
- Support mitigation and acceleration strategies, meet milestones, and ensure compliance with contractual programme requirements and applicable NEC obligations.
Experience and skills
- At least five years of demonstrable project planning experience.
- Planning or project delivery experience in civil engineering, utilities, highways, power, or construction.
- Experience with utilities, power, transmission and distribution, ICP, DNO, or other major infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of planning processes and techniques; proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, including resource management and reporting.
- Experience producing plans with deliverables, timescales, interfaces, and dependencies, and performing programme reporting, progress measurement, earned value management, and performance analysis.
- Strong understanding of programme risk management, mitigation planning, and recovery programme development.
Working style
The employer values personal responsibility, comfort with complex problems, cross-disciplinary collaboration, sound judgment under pressure, clear communication, and working independently and in a team.
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