Planner

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At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Planner or Senior Planner to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all.

Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring Planners and Senior Planners for our Infrastructure Delivery team across England and South Wales.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the UK’s transition to clean energy within our Infrastructure Delivery (ID) team as a Planner or Senior Planner, where you will provide development, tendering and construction planning expertise for our Construction Projects. You will be identifying and implementing continuous improvement on all planning related activities and ensuring that there is a consistent approach to enable data capture and performance reporting.

You’ll be welcomed into our diverse, inclusive organisation that has recently won an Institution of Engineering and Technology silver award for our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programme. If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we look forward to talking to you very soon.

What you'll do

This is not a project specific role, and you’ll be working with the Project Controls Manager to assist in the development and continuous improvement of robust Project Controls Functions.

You will provide planning expertise on all end-to-end processes. You will be responsible for the development of P6 programmes during the early stages of project development and manage this throughout project delivery, including critical path and total float analysis, earned value management techniques, leading indicators for risk mitigation to ensure the successful delivery to time and budget.

You will work alongside Project Managers with programme compliance to the contract with regards to insights as well as opportunities with recommendations following month end analysis that assist timely decisions for corrective action.

Overseeing and completing the analysis of planning variances identified during design via trackers and delivery via site visits and presenting an assessment of the contractor performance against planned work to provide the project manager with information that may be required to improve delivery performance.

What you'll need

We’d like you to be proficient in the use of National Grids chosen planning tool Primavera P6. You will have experience of delivering several projects already and be able to demonstrate experience of schedule management, stakeholder engagement, and earned value management.

You will have experience in carrying out client programme development for initial project phases and evaluating contractor tender programme submission for compliance to NEC programming requirements.

A skilled capability to assess change and impact assessment on time risk allowance and forensic analysis of delays would be desirable, as would an understanding of the key NEC clauses for Planning, Compensation Event and Early Warning requirements.

You also have a driving licence that permits you to drive in the UK. There is an expectation that you’ll be able to travel to site as and when required, but as part of our hybrid working model you’ll also have the flexibility to work from home, a National Grid office, or site. 

What you'll get

As we are recruiting across differing levels of seniority our salaries range from £51,000 per annum to £64,000 per annum.

• Salary, Market Supplement and Annual Performance Based Bonus.
• 26 days annual leave plus eight statutory days.
• A Job requirement Company Car.
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role.
• Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

Interviews

Interviews for these positions will be held in two separate windows as the advert is posted for a month:

Window 1: 19/05/25 – 30/05/25

Window 2: 04/06/25 – 13/06/25

Your interview date will be dependent upon the date of your application.

More information

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) own the electricity transmission network in England and Wales. Every time you plug in your phone or flick a light switch, we’ve played a part. Not only are we responsible for delivering energy to millions of homes and businesses, we are also driving the move to cleaner energy, and the Government’s target of net zero emissions by 2050.

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing, and improving.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

To find out more about us, please follow the link below:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/

The closing date for applications is 28/05/24

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