Job Title: Senior Project Planner
Location: Warrington OR Bristol, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Project Planner at our Warrington, Cheshire or Bristol site.
The role
As a Senior Project Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of delivering complex projects that shape the future of the nuclear industry, ensuring schedules are robust, aligned, and drive successful outcomes.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for applying schedule management independently primarily in complex situations across Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management (P3M).
1. Develop/implement and maintain the Project structures (WBS/OBS/RBS/CBS)
2. Develop/baseline and maintain the Project integrated schedules.
3. Ensure alignment between the integrated scheduling toolset and the companies financial and material demand toolset
4. Regular status update of the integrated schedule and the provision of metrics (e.g. critical path/total float) and schedule analysis of the impact to the project.
This is a full-time position (37 hours per week) offering a flexible hybrid working arrangement, with three days based in the office and two days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior Project Planner:
5. Experience of Project Planning using Primavera P6
6. Previous experience of working as a Project Planner within a high regulated indsutry/environment
Qualifications for the Senior Project Planner:
7. A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline
8. A recognised professional qualification such as APM, Acoste, RICS (or equivalent)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at
What we offer
9. Generous holiday allowance
10. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
11. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
12. Employee share scheme
13. Employee shopping savings portal
14. Payment of Professional Fees
15. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
16. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
17. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
18. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish
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