Location
London, Greater London with regular attendance at client site in Dover (2 days per week)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people across more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving complex challenges together.

We are seeking an experienced Project Planner to support the delivery of a major infrastructure programme from our client’s site in Dover. This is a hands-on planning role focused on building and maintaining robust project schedules, challenging progress, and providing insight to keep complex projects on track.

Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining detailed project programmes, baseline plans, and work breakdown structures; managing schedules throughout the project lifecycle; identifying schedule variances, risks, and potential delays; supporting recovery and mitigation plans; analysing programme performance; providing clear progress reporting and forecasting; supporting earned value and project controls reporting; reviewing and challenging contractor programmes; and collaborating closely with clients, project managers, commercial teams, and other delivery disciplines.

You will also contribute to improving planning processes, reporting, and the use of planning and digital tools to enhance project delivery and outcomes.

Experience
- Strong project planning and scheduling experience within infrastructure, engineering, or construction, ideally on complex programmes.
- Proficient in Primavera P6 and/or equivalent planning software.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and updating integrated project schedules.
- Good understanding of project controls, earned value management (EVM), schedule performance, and progress reporting.
- Ability to interrogate programmes, identify risks, and challenge delivery assumptions.
- Experience working within complex contracting and multidisciplinary delivery environments.
- Experience within rail, highways, aviation, ports, or other major infrastructure environments is advantageous.
- Ability to work regularly from the client site in Dover (2 days per week).

About you
Strong stakeholder and client-facing communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and disciplines.
Committed to delivering high-quality project outcomes and continuous improvement in planning processes.
Membership of a relevant professional body would be advantageous.

Qualifications
Relevant professional qualifications or membership of a planning or project management body is desirable but not essential.