About The Role
Right across infrastructure, theres a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career, with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. Were problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
This role is focused on providing control, consistency, and insight across multiple programmes, ensuring planning supports and actively drives delivery outcomes.
You'll workclosely with Project Delivery Managers (PDMs), Project Engineers, and Commercial teams, the Planning Lead to ensure all programmes are robust, aligned to contractual requirements, and provide a clear basis for decision-making, while also leading and supporting planners to deliver consistent, high-quality outputs across the portfolio.
The role will act as the central point of accountability for planning across the framework.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and coordinate planning activities across multiple projects
* Ensure consistency in programme structure, logic, and outputs
* Oversee programme updates, reporting, and submissions
* Identify risks, delays, and opportunities across the portfolio
* Support and challenge delivery teams to ensure credible programmes
* Produce clear, structured portfolio-level reporting
* Lead, support, and develop planners within the team
* Drive continuous improvement in planning standards and processes
What youll bring
* Do you have strong proven experience using Primavera P6 andmanaging multiple programmes/projects?
* Have you got a strong understanding of programme logic and sequencing?
* Do you have the ability to communicate programme outputs clearly to stakeholders?
* Are you someone who has a proactive approach with a focus on improving delivery outcomes?
* Do you have experience working with and supporting delivery teams (PDMs / Engineers)?
Whats in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
* Contributory pension scheme
* Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
* Employee assistance programme
* My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
* Life assurance
* Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
* Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
* Reward and recognition scheme
* Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!
In addition, this role offers;
* Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
* My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
* Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
* Private Healthcare - family cover
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. Were one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
* Were responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
* Were open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
* Were together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
* Were ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether youre a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
Its an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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