Location
London

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 the world’s most complex challenges. The Arcadis Water Optimisation team delivers AMP8 Water projects across clean and wastewater schemes within infrastructure and non-infrastructure portfolios. This strategic role involves developing and implementing robust planning governance, processes, and systems; integrating programme schedules; and driving continuous improvement in delivery performance.

As a Planning Engineer within our Programme & Project Management team, you will provide expert advice to project teams and senior leadership on earned value management, resource requirements, programme risks, performance reporting, and outturn cost forecasting. You will collaborate closely with portfolio leads, discipline leads, and business stakeholders to optimise resource forecasting, align plans with delivery capabilities, and strengthen financial and schedule control. Additionally, you will support tendering activities by delivering comprehensive programme inputs, resourcing strategies, and cost forecast data to improve bid accuracy and deliverability.

Your leadership will be critical in maturing planning capability, enhancing predictability, and enabling the successful delivery of complex resilience infrastructure programmes.

Role Accountabilities
- Support planning capabilities that underpin major water AMP8 programmes, defining roles, standards, and capability uplift.
- Design, implement, and embed new planning processes, procedures, and tools to standardise delivery across tender, project, and portfolio levels.
- Develop integrated baseline programmes, WBS, and schedule hierarchies ensuring alignment with scope, milestones, regulatory requirements, and client expectations.
- Oversee schedule health checks, earned value analysis, and variance management; drive recovery, contingency, and re-forecast actions as required.
- Produce and present timely reports on schedule performance, earned value, resource utilisation, and outturn cost forecasts to inform senior leadership decisions.
- Maintain portfolio-level resource forecasts and capacity plans to support business unit resourcing strategy and recruitment priorities.
- Embed planning governance, data integrity, and configuration control in planning systems; assure compliance with standards and auditable baselines.
- Facilitate integrated planning and risk workshops to identify programme risks, opportunities, and mitigation measures, escalating critical issues to leadership.

Experience
- Several years of project planning and scheduling experience, ideally within the water sector or complex infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of UK infrastructure delivery contexts, including governance, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements.
- Proficient in planning software such as Safran, Primavera P6, and MS Project.
- Experience with project controls, cost engineering, and financial operations.
- Familiarity with different contracting environments and commercial models.

About You
- Excellent organisational, commercial, and communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and senior leadership.
- Strong analytical skills with a focus on continuous improvement and delivery performance.
- Proactive and adaptable with a commitment to driving planning excellence.

Qualifications
- Degree, HNC, or HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related subject.