About the Role
Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Location: Peterborough/Hybrid (role requires 3 days working in Peterborough office)
Senior Planner – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
As a Senior Planner, you will play a critical role within an integrated project delivery team, ensuring that all project plans are accurate, robust, and effectively maintained. You will work closely with site, commercial, and engineering teams, taking full ownership of the project plan to drive success, mitigate risks, and challenge delays or deviations.
What you'll be doing
* Lead collaborative digital planning and production meetings, ensuring all team members, including suppliers, have clarity on their roles and expectations.
* Coordinate with delivery teams to maintain consistency in key assumptions, methodologies, and outputs.
* Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans that accurately reflect the full project scope.
* Identify and document any delays, supporting claims for additional time or cost.
* Create 4D animations to facilitate digital rehearsals of construction activities.
* Collect and analyze progress data, identifying causes of deviations and implementing corrective actions.
* Uphold planning standards across @one Alliance, ensuring adherence to published processes.
* Ensure the integrity of project plans, ensuring they withstand rigorous scrutiny.
What We Are Looking For
* Extensive experience working on large‑scale, high‑value projects within the civil engineering sector, ideally in the water industry.
* Proficiency in Primavera P6.
* Experience with 4D planning tools and techniques.
* Strong ability to interpret and extract key insights from technical drawings.
* Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex data to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Benefits
* Smart working, giving you flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family‑friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including veterans, reservists and people with disabilities. For more information, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on any grounds prohibited by law and we are committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process. Feedback on our process can be sent to candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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