Job No. BBUK13093
Senior Planner - Peterborough
Power T&D
Planning and Project Controls
Peterborough
Permanent
About the role
Senior Planner – Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)
@one Alliance is a partnership of eight leading companies—Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO—delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.
As a Senior Planner, you will play a critical role within an integrated project delivery team, ensuring that all project plans are accurate, robust, and effectively maintained. You will work closely with site, commercial, and engineering teams, taking full ownership of the project plan to drive success, mitigate risks, and challenge delays or deviations.
What you’ll be doing

Key responsibilities:

• Lead collaborative digital planning and production meetings, ensuring all team members, including suppliers, have clarity on their roles and expectations.
• Coordinate with delivery teams to maintain consistency in key assumptions, methodologies, and outputs.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans that accurately reflect the full project scope.
• Identify and document any delays, supporting claims for additional time or cost.
• Create 4D animations to facilitate digital rehearsals of construction activities.
• Collect and analyze progress data, identifying causes of deviations and implementing corrective actions.
• Uphold planning standards across @one Alliance, ensuring adherence to published processes.
• Ensure the integrity of project plans, ensuring they withstand rigorous scrutiny.

Who we’re looking for

What we are looking for:

• Extensive experience working on large-scale, high-value projects within the civil engineering sector, ideally in the water industry.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Experience with 4D planning tools and techniques.
• Strong ability to interpret and extract key insights from technical drawings.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex data to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This is your opportunity to be part of an innovative, forward-thinking alliance that is reshaping the future of infrastructure delivery.
If you are ready to take on a pivotal role in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

Key responsibilities:

• Lead collaborative digital planning and production meetings, ensuring all team members, including suppliers, have clarity on their roles and expectations.
• Coordinate with delivery teams to maintain consistency in key assumptions, methodologies, and outputs.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans that accurately reflect the full project scope.
• Identify and document any delays, supporting claims for additional time or cost.
• Create 4D animations to facilitate digital rehearsals of construction activities.
• Collect and analyze progress data, identifying causes of deviations and implementing corrective actions.
• Uphold planning standards across @one Alliance, ensuring adherence to published processes.
• Ensure the integrity of project plans, ensuring they withstand rigorous scrutiny

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more