Planning Lead

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

1/6/2025

Job Description

Anglian Water has created a new delivery enterprise - the Strategic Pipeline Alliance. “SPA” is creating hundreds of kilometres of new, interconnecting pipelines to help combat the impact of climate change and keep fresh, clean water flowing across the Anglian Water region. The new network is one of the largest infrastructure projects for a generation and is a complex and challenging major infrastructure project.

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The AMP8 Lead Planner will be a core member of the Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) Integrated Delivery Team as the SPA Programme transitions to take on new projects as part of the AMP8 delivery period.

As a member of the Project Controls Team and reporting to the SPA Head of Project Controls, the successful applicant will be aligned to the new AMP8 projects transferring into SPA and should be able to demonstrate experience of integrating and managing schedules across large scale civil engineering programmes. They will also need to demonstrate experience of working across multi-disciplinary programme teams covering every aspect of project delivery from design through procurement, construction, and commissioning.

The successful candidate is expected to develop a strategic overview of the programme and ownership of any cross-project integration, schedule change management, and gain an understanding of underlying risks and opportunities which might impact the delivery of programme outcomes.

In addition to this you will coordinate a team of planners as well as interact with a large panel of individuals contributing to the performance of the individual projects and programme and become a central member of the SPA Project Controls Group with specific responsibilities and accountabilities.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and manage AMP8 schedule planning team under the SPA Project Controls Group.
• Support the planning, development, and maintenance of a suite robust, high-quality schedules against the agreed Project scope to deliver the SPA AMP8 programme outcomes.
• Support the establishment of robust and integrated PMO systems, processes, and procedures to support the AMP8 SPA works across the programme and supply chain.
• Report the current Programme/Project position in line with the governance, process and procedures defined by the SPA Project Controls Group to include Risk, EV, Change Management and Cost.
• Maintain an overview of the SPA AMP8 Programme to provide critical path analysis and identify opportunities and risks to the successful delivery of the SPA AMP8 programme.
• Liaise and deputise for the SPA AMP7 Lead Planner as required to support the overall SPA Programme.
• Support the wider SPA Programme Controls Group
  
  

Qualifications

• Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Are inquisitive, analytical and can think in a strategic and logical fashion.
• Can plan and communicate the strategy for a complex programme to the wider team to ensure accuracy of information.
• Experience of appraising, co-ordinating and integrating projects including subcontractor inputs into an integrated programme.
• Always be looking for the programme opportunities to meet project challenges.
• Strong understanding of Project Controls including Earned Value, Cost, Resource, Change and Risk management including Schedule Risk Analysis.
• Experience of working within a collaborative framework/alliance environment in multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficient in overseeing and managing projects including resource allocation, and monitoring progress to ensure successful and timely completion.
• Extensive experience of schedule management on large scale civil engineering/infrastructure projects ideally for a tier 1 contractor or at client-side.
• Significant planning experience in the water industry covering large scale infrastructure programmes
• Extensive experience of multi-project integration
• Project management experience, particularly of complex Major Infrastructure Programmes covering: Risk, Cost, Change Management, Earned Value, Reporting.
• Expert on the use of P6 within large-scale project/programmes and critical path tracing and analysis.
• Strong understanding of interrelationships between PMO functions (Cost, Risk, Schedule, Design)
  
  

About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.