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. The Arcadis Climate Adaptation programme delivers resilience projects across England and Wales, focusing on major environment-sector and local authority programmes.

This strategic Senior Planner role will develop and implement robust planning governance, processes, and systems; integrate programme schedules; and drive continuous improvement in delivery performance. You will lead and mature planning capability while providing hands-on planning leadership for complex resilience infrastructure programmes.

Key responsibilities include providing expert advice on earned value management, resource requirements, programme risks, performance reporting, and outturn cost forecasting. You will collaborate 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 enhancing predictability and enabling the successful delivery of complex infrastructure projects that improve resilience across the environment sector and local authorities.

Experience
- Significant experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally within complex infrastructure, environment-sector, local authority programmes, and/or the water sector.
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams in a fast-paced environment.
- 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
Organised, commercially aware, and an excellent communicator with the ability to influence senior leadership and project teams. You are motivated to drive continuous improvement and digital adoption in planning and reporting to enhance predictability, efficiency, and decision support.

Qualifications
- Degree, HNC, or HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related subject.
- Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable.
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification is advantageous.