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Senior Planning Engineer

Manchester, United Kingdom, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Senior Project Planner providing performance reporting, analysis, and governance controls for high-profile construction projects across the UK and Europe.

Role type

Senior IC project controls engineer (construction)

Builds

Master project schedules, cost baselines, risk impact models (Monte Carlo), and executive dashboards for client delivery.

Domain

Construction / Project Controls

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery

Required skills

Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls, PMO, Conceptual Estimating, Procurement Principles, Monte Carlo Simulation, Schedule Adherence, Vendor Management

Preferred skills

None explicitly stated

Technologies

Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, PRISM

Responsibilities

Identify trends and root causes of schedule/cost deviations; lead evaluation of time, cost, and quality targets; guide general contractors on schedule and cash flow; act as key client contact for delivery and commercial issues; control costs using estimating and funding stage gates; create executive-level financial dashboards; lead change management processes; coordinate planning sessions to compile master schedules; incorporate vendor lead times into schedules; participate in risk evaluations with quantitative cost/schedule impacts.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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