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Planner
HOURS: 40 hours
LOCATION: Olney
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day.
We're looking for a Programme Planner who will play a key role in supporting project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and contractual compliance across complex programmes.
Role Responsibilities
1. Develop, maintain, and update the project programme (schedule) in line with commercial contract requirements (e.g., NEC/FIDIC), ensuring full integration of all project activities and alignment with project objectives.
2. Work closely with project stakeholders to understand objectives, scope, and deliverables and translate them into detailed, achievable plans and schedules.
3. Proactively identify and report delays, proposing solutions and adjustments to mitigate programme impact.
4. Implement and manage planning, monitoring, and control processes required by the commercial contract, ensuring timely communication of progress, risks, and changes.
5. Coordinate with the project team to support early warning processes, identify risks, and contribute to mitigation strategies.
6. Ensure accurate and timely submission of revised programmes, forecasts, and updates, supporting the management of compensation events and contract variations.
7. Lead and facilitate collaborative planning sessions with project teams and stakeholders to support efficient project execution and programme updates.
8. Utilise Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 tools, applying planning techniques such as critical path analysis and earned value management.
9. Prepare and present detailed reports and analysis on project progress, performance, and forecasts to senior stakeholders, highlighting risks and recommended solutions.
10. Collaborate closely with client design leads to review and analyse progress data, ensuring timely communication of insights to project management.
11. Build and maintain strong relationships with project teams and clients, ensuring clear communication and excellent client satisfaction.
12. Ensure senior management is fully informed of all programme issues and provide appropriate planning advice.
Required Qualifications
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
Essential
13. Experience using MS Project and Primavera P6 (OPC) software.
14. 3+ years' project planning experience.
15. Ability to work independently to produce project and tender programmes.
16. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
17. A strong team player committed to continuous improvement.
Desirable
18. Experience in construction or renewable energy.
19. Degree in Business Management, Construction, or equivalent experience.
20. Project Management experience.
21. PRINCE2/APM qualification.
There's a place for you at Mitie — join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Cory Ambler at .