Senior Planner – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance) is a partnership of eight leading companies delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As part of the AMP8 Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.
Location: Peterborough/Hybrid – role requires 3 days working in Peterborough office.
About the Role
As a Senior Planner you will play a critical role within an integrated project delivery team, ensuring 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.
Key Responsibilities
* 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, with staggered start and finish times, and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
* Family‑friendly policies: 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 much more.
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, putting 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 creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive. We are members of WISE, BFE, the Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers to employment.
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
If you are ready to take on a pivotal role in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Other
Industry: Construction
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