Costain has been appointed by Northumbrian Water to the Living Water Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme with contracts valued up to £670 million over 15 years. We are looking for an experienced Lead Planner to join the Framework team.
As a key member of the Delivery Team, the successful applicant will be aligned to the AMP8 projects, demonstrate experience of integrating and managing schedules across large‑scale civil engineering programmes, and work across multi‑disciplinary programme teams covering design, procurement, construction, and commissioning. The role will also involve developing a strategic overview of the programme, owning cross‑project integration, managing schedule changes, and identifying risks and opportunities that might impact programme outcomes.
This is a hybrid role with a mix of office (Newcastle), site and home working.
Responsibilities
* Recruit and manage the AMP8 schedule planning team
* Support the planning, development, and maintenance of high‑quality schedules against the agreed project scope to deliver the AMP8 programme outcomes
* Support the establishment of robust systems, processes, and procedures to support the AMP8 works across the programme and supply chain
* Report the current programme/project position in line with governance, processes, and procedures, including risk, earned value, change management and cost
* Maintain an overview of the programme to provide critical‑path analysis and identify opportunities and risks
Qualifications
* Extensive experience of schedule management on large‑scale civil engineering/infrastructure projects, ideally for a tier 1 contractor or client‑side
* Significant planning experience in the water industry covering large‑scale infrastructure programmes or experience in non‑water large‑scale programmes
* Extensive experience of multi‑project integration
* Project management experience, particularly of complex major infrastructure programmes covering risk, cost, change management, earned value, and reporting
* Expertise in the use of P6 within large‑scale projects/programmes and critical‑path tracing and analysis
* Scheduling/Reporting experience within NEC contract framework
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to negotiate and influence key stakeholders
* Experience of maintaining performance and contractual baselines, producing critical‑path analysis on fully resourced and cost‑loaded project plans, monitoring changes, and reporting on early warnings and variations
* Strong leadership skills with experience in leading teams and advising senior colleagues to enable delivery of business goals
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