Senior Planning Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Planning Engineer

Location: Manchester

Working Pattern: Full-time

Contact: shas@scantec.co.uk | 0151 666 8929

Overview:

We’re currently recruiting for a Principal Planning Engineer to join a dynamic and growing team supporting key infrastructure projects across the UK. This is a commercially focused role, ideal for someone confident leading their own project planning activities while effectively contributing to a wider team. This position will support pre- and post-contract stages, helping deliver successful outcomes across the full project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead planning activities across multiple projects, working closely with the Project Controls Manager.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams and client representatives.
• Provide accurate scheduling, analysis, and forecasting aligned with contract requirements.
• Monitor and manage project risk, change, and schedule variations, proposing mitigations where necessary.
• Collaborate with project and contractor teams to ensure realistic and achievable schedules.
• Support the recruitment and development of the planning function as projects scale.
• Ensure appropriate handovers are arranged during periods of absence.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong understanding of the interaction between time, cost, and commercial factors throughout the project lifecycle.
• Proven experience in managing schedules through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.
• Skilled in the development and implementation of planning procedures and reporting.
• Ability to analyse and interpret Earned Value metrics.

Desirable:

• Experience working in highly regulated industries such as Nuclear, Defence, or Oil & Gas.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., ACostE, APM).

Interested?

For more information or to apply, please contact Sha at shas@scantec.co.uk or call 0151 666 8929.