Job Title: Senior Project Planner
Salary: £53,000 - £80,000
Travel: Up to 10%
Eligibility: UK Citizenship required + plus SC Clearance
Join a forward-thinking organisation at the forefront of innovation, tackling complex challenges and shaping the future of technology. This is an opportunity to be part of a team where your work has real impact-both on critical programmes and your own career development.
The job
As a Senior Project Planner, you will play a key role in supporting PMO and programme teams delivering highly complex, large-scale defence projects. You will be responsible for developing and assuring robust, fully integrated schedules that inform decision-making across project, programme, and portfolio levels.
Working closely with Project and Programme Managers, you'll act as a trusted planning partner-providing leadership, insight, and analysis to ensure alignment with contractual, commercial, and technical objectives throughout the full lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and control integrated master schedules using Primavera P6 across large, multi-workstream programmes
- Ensure schedules are logically linked, baselined, and compliant with best practice and governance standards
- Conduct critical path analysis, what-if scenario modelling, and recovery planning
- Identify and manage schedule risks and opportunities, embedding mitigations into programme plans
- Support bids and proposals with compliant and credible planning inputs
- Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) to track performance, analyse variances, and assess change impacts
- Perform and support Schedule Risk Analysis, including quantitative modelling
- Produce high-quality reports, dashboards, and insights for stakeholders
- Support internal and external audits related to planning, EVM, and risk
- Collaborate across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial teams
- Mentor junior planners and provide subject matter expertise in planning tools and methodologies
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in project planning within defence, aerospace, or complex engineering environments
- Advanced, hands-on expertise with Primavera P6
- Proven application of Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Experience conducting Schedule Risk Analysis and interpreting outputs
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate complex data clearly to stakeholders
- Experience managing integrated schedules across multi-disciplinary teams and suppliers
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Effective stakeholder engagement and collaboration abilities
Want to know more about the role? APPLY TODAY or reach out to Chris at TEC Partners
