Senior Planner at Linesight

Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

11 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Construction Project Planning, Scheduling, Primavera P6, Communication Skills, Meeting Facilitation, Quantitative Risk Assessment, Earned Value Management, Technical Understanding, Leadership, Team Management, Project Management, Work Breakdown Structure, Critical Path Methodology, Stakeholder Engagement, Conflict Resolution, Schedule Baselining

Industry

Construction

Description

Overview As a Senior Planner at Linesight you will play a key role across the business, working in an agile and collaborative environment. You’ll serve as the primary point of contact for the Planning & Scheduling service line within your assigned Division of Responsibility. Acting as a representative of Linesight across all regional business activity, you will bring technical expertise, leadership, and a commitment to excellence. This role also involves leading and managing a high-performing team. The Opportunity In this role you will: Enjoy freedom in managing your own priorities, deadlines, and client engagements. Develop detailed, end-to-end project schedules using critical path methodology, covering full project scope, milestones, and timelines. Apply Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) methodology to define roles, responsibilities, and deliverables. Align all scheduling with the project execution plan, contracting, procurement, and control strategies. Establish a robust method for schedule baselining and manage ongoing updates. Maintain a fully integrated project schedule viewable at multiple levels of detail and abstraction. Lead and facilitate meetings with both clients and suppliers to discuss timelines, progress, and dependencies. Negotiate and resolve interdisciplinary and inter-party schedule conflicts to achieve optimal outcomes for the client. Deliver regular progress reports to stakeholders, highlighting variances, risks, and mitigation strategies. Review and validate supplier and third-party schedules, ensuring alignment with industry best practices. Apply working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) to support integrated schedule and cost performance tracking, when required. Experience of CQV process is required for some projects. We would love to hear from you if you have: Extensive experience in construction project planning and scheduling. Proficiency in using Primavera P6 to build, manage, and analyse project schedules. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and can convey complex schedule data in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner. Confidence leading meetings and are able to command attention, facilitate productive discussions, and drive decisions. Demonstratable experience with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), including the ability to interpret and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders. Excellent technical understanding of planning processes in complex, high-value construction projects. A degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, or a related field. All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required About us Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team! Diversity, inclusion and accessibility Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

The Senior Planner will manage project schedules, ensuring alignment with project execution plans and facilitating meetings with clients and suppliers. This role also involves leading a high-performing team and delivering progress reports to stakeholders.