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WSP

5 days ago

Transmission & Distribution Senior Project Planner (Energy)

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Job Summary

Lead project planning and programme controls for UK electricity transmission and distribution energy infrastructure projects. Develop and maintain robust, logic-linked programme baselines with clear dependencies, interfaces, key dates, and critical path activities. Coordinate with project and design teams to define deliverables and approvals, proactively manage risks and change impacts, and monitor progress using integrated milestones, float analysis, and recovery forecasting. Support bids and consultancy delivery through framework planning and reporting.

Location: United Kingdom

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Supply Chain & Logistics

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Develop, maintain and challenge robust project programmes with clear logic, dependencies, interfaces, key dates and critical path activities.
•Work with project managers, design managers, technical leads and delivery teams to define deliverables, design review periods, client approvals and programme assumptions.
•Identify and manage programme interfaces, constraints, risks, opportunities and change impacts across internal teams, clients and stakeholders.
•Create and manage integrated project programmes, including resource loading/levelling, milestone tracking and progress forecasting.
•Monitor, control and report progress against baselines, including float/dependency/slippage analysis, recovery actions and forecast completion dates, and provide programme inputs to cost forecasting and change management.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkGym Membership

Key Requirements

•Minimum of an HNC in a relevant engineering, construction, project controls or planning discipline.
•Experience developing, maintaining and challenging project programmes for energy transmission and distribution projects, ideally within the UK electricity sector.
•Knowledge or prior experience of the UK regulated and non-regulated transmission and distribution sectors and the programme implications of design management, client reviews, interfaces and delivery risks.
•Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6, including building logic-linked programmes, managing dependencies, resource loading/levelling, and supporting recovery planning.
•Knowledge of NEC4 contracts would be desirable; ability to liaise with project managers, design managers, technical teams, clients and stakeholders to obtain inputs and communicate programme risks and opportunities.

Experience:EnergyUtilitiesEnergy infrastructureTransmission and distribution

Education:Certification / Diploma

Skills:Proactive planningStakeholder managementCross-functional collaborationRisk awarenessProgramme challenge

Tech Stack:Primavera P6NEC4SCADADMS

Company Brief

WSP

Global professional services firm providing engineering, consulting, and technical services across infrastructure, environment, buildings, transportation, and energy sectors for public- and private-sector clients worldwide.

Industry: Professional Services

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 1959

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