Senior Project Planner

Position: Senior Project Planner
Location: Worksop
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

We're seeking an experienced Senior Project Planner to lead programme development and delivery across complex projects. This role combines strategic planning, stakeholder coordination, and team leadership. Ideal for a technically confident, commercially aware professional ready to drive performance and innovation.

What You'll Do:

• Provide expert planning input for tenders and maintain accurate contract records.
• Lead planning and coordination, ensuring all programmes comply with project and factory business plans.
• Advise on cost-effective construction and manufacturing strategies through collaboration.
• Analyse project performance, identify risks, recommend improvements, and communicate strategies clearly.
• Develop and maintain programmes throughout all project stages, integrating 3D CAD models and optimising sequences.
• Monitor key milestones, production outputs, resource requirements, and ensure timely project completion.
• Manage contract time-related issues and ensure compliance through functional audits.
• Lead, mentor, and support your planning team to foster growth and best practices.
• Coordinate time-related information with all stakeholders, partners, and supply chains.
• Drive process improvements and implement innovative planning techniques.

What You Bring:

• Proven experience managing a team of planners.
• Broad mindset to support multiple sectors and project types.
• Familiarity with DFMA a bonus, but not essential.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities with confidence and clarity.
• Degree or relevant experience in construction, manufacturing, or engineering.
• Strong leadership, communication, and software skills (P6 & ASTA).

About us:

The Laing O'Rourke Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction, is Europe's largest and most advanced pre-assembly manufacturing facility.

The investment in our own purpose-built facility, which opened in 2009, has united the power of our experience and knowledge of construction with state-of-the-art processes and technology, providing our clients with leaner, smarter and more cost-efficient options for the built environment.

Central to our Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach, Explore Manufacturing gives Laing O'Rourke a unique self-delivery capability that leads the construction industry in driving greater levels of design standardisation and construction quality. Our manufacturing operations transform traditional construction methods into modern processes of assembly, using lean automation and quality assurance systems.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open to flexible working and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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