Location
Holborn

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
LOCKROSE Limited is seeking an experienced and driven Senior Planner to support the successful delivery of major Transmission & Distribution (T&D) projects across the energy sector. This pivotal role focuses on the strategic planning, coordination, and performance monitoring of complex infrastructure programmes, ensuring safe, timely, and cost-efficient delivery. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, construction, and project management to develop and maintain integrated project schedules aligned with operational and commercial objectives. The successful candidate will play a key role in risk identification, schedule assurance, and performance forecasting, while promoting planning best practices throughout the project lifecycle. This opportunity offers the chance to contribute to critical national infrastructure projects within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

Key Responsibilities
- Develop, manage, and maintain detailed NEC-compliant integrated project schedules for Transmission & Distribution projects
- Produce and maintain programmes aligned with NEC Clause 31 and Clause 32 requirements, ensuring acceptance criteria are met
- Coordinate planning activities across engineering, procurement, construction, and project controls teams
- Monitor project performance and update schedules to reflect changes in scope, resources, productivity, constraints, and project risks
- Analyse project data to identify critical path impacts, potential delays, and emerging schedule risks, recommending corrective and recovery actions
- Undertake Time Impact Analysis (TIA) and other delay analysis techniques to assess effects of compensation events, variations, and unforeseen issues on completion dates and key milestones
- Assess and support management of Compensation Events (CEs), including evaluation of programme impacts, entitlement, and schedule implications in accordance with NEC contracts
- Ensure compliance with NEC contract processes, including early warnings, compensation events, programme submissions, and contractual reporting obligations
- Manage and review Early Warning Notices (EWNs), ensuring risks are identified, mitigated, and incorporated into programme updates
- Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques to measure and track project performance (e.g. SV, CV, SPI, CPI)
- Provide clear project controls insight to Project Managers by highlighting variances, forecast trends, and performance risks
- Support effective resource planning and workflow optimisation
- Prepare and present progress reports, schedule updates, and planning analysis to stakeholders and senior leadership
- Drive continuous improvement in planning processes and project controls methodologies

Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline
- Minimum 7+ years’ experience in project planning within the Transmission & Distribution sector
- Strong understanding of T&D infrastructure, delivery models, and regulatory frameworks
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project
- Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder project schedules
- Strong working knowledge of NEC contracts (particularly NEC3/NEC4)
- Experience in delay analysis techniques (e.g. TIA) and programme impact assessment
- Excellent analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary project teams

About you
- Detail-oriented and proactive planner with strong collaborative skills
- Able to manage competing priorities and deliver under pressure
- Committed to promoting best practices and continuous improvement in project controls

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree as specified above
- Desirable: Broader experience across the Energy or Utilities sector
- Knowledge of project controls, risk management, and reporting frameworks (e.g. EVM)
- Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or utility programmes
- Experience applying Earned Value Management (EVM) in live projects
- Experience supporting commercial teams with claims and entitlement assessment