Technical Planning Engineer

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit
The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

Our Power, Process & Nuclear are looking for a Senior Planner to lead our planning team on a major UK programme of work. This long-term and complex project promises to be motivating and challenging. It presents an excellent opportunity for the right person to become a central element of our team and an integral part of successful project delivery.

About the role:

• Able to manage a portfolio (typically <£10M per annum) of schedules, to fully understand the interactions between them & to explain the output to stakeholders at all levels. Can develop planning strategy within the portfolio and able to provide mentoring to lower planning grades.
• Ability to ‘police’ a small portfolio, to ensure all schedules adhere to procedures and local practices / work instructions & that these are consistently applied.
• Fully understands EV principles, able to explain variances within the portfolio & advise all stakeholders of potential mitigation options / recovery scenarios.
• Ability to liaise with & take direction from lead & Management roles.
• Ability to assess potential improvements to the structure of the schedule (including hierarchal coding) & to discuss and agree implementation measures with peers & key stakeholders.
• Application of change control measures (ideally within the NEC contract model) & the ability to recognise when a change can be applied to both the baseline & working schedule.
• Self-performs schedule integrity checking across the portfolio, including re-assessment of critical path & key deliverables on each update and communication of key issues to all relevant stakeholders.
• Automatically liaises with other stakeholders regarding work to go & discussion / communication of this with the Cost Engineer, Project Manager & Project Control Manager, leading to underpinned EACs.
• Ability to develop a resourced delivery-based schedule through liaison with Project Leads / Lead Engineers. Can develop & apply rules of credit and able to justify and substantiate their application.
• Ability to baseline & progress a portfolio of resourced schedules.
• Ability to effectively communicate with and influence key individuals.
• Ability to drive the project team to deliver to plan and constructively challenge any delay or deviation.
• Collaboratively develop, maintain and present detailed project plans in 4D using Bentley Synchro software, Primavera P6 and relevant BIM models.
• Appreciate and uphold the Health & Safety standards in all planning activities.
• Ensure project plans capture the full project scope.
• Assist in the proactive identification of opportunities and risks in the plan.
• Ensure planning standards are maintained.

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About you:

• Applicants will have experience in a planning role developing detailed resourced schedules & applying Earned Value (EV) Techniques working on large scale or significant value projects within the civil engineering sector.
• Experience leading a planning team to developing a portfolio of schedules, complete with the appropriate WBS & applicable coding required to manage & succinctly report the portfolio.
• The ability to communicate clearly and succinctly with all stakeholders both within the project team & up through the Organisations’ reporting structure.
• An ability to provide leadership & mentoring to lower planning grades, to formulate local processes / procedures and allocate work-share across a portfolio.
• Experience of leading collaborative planning processes and working with different teams (engineers, contractors, suppliers, equipment operators, etc.) and the client to deliver optimal programme schedules.
• Awareness of the latest technologies, procedures & innovations and how these may be applied to the benefit of the portfolio.
• The successful candidate will work from our offices with the ability to travel to our client offices.

Other skills required for the role are:

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Confidence in presenting to and speaking to external stakeholder bodies.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.
• Candidate preferred to be a member of a recognised body (i.e. APM / ACostE / Planning or Project Controls).

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Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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