Job Description
Senior Planner
Location: Scottish Water Office (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Permanent
Finlay Jude Associates is supporting a key client in the water sector to appoint an experienced Senior Planner to strengthen their planning function. This role combines hands-on project planning responsibilities with the leadership of a local planning team.
The successful candidate will take ownership of one or more project programmes, ensuring delivery in line with agreed schedules while proactively managing delays, risks, and deviations. You will also play a key role in embedding best-practice planning processes across the wider function.
In addition to programme ownership, you will mentor and support junior planners, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment. The role reports functionally to the Head of Planning.
What’s on Offer
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working (role dependent)
- Car or car allowance (role dependent)
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (with option to buy up to 5 additional days)
- Company pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Health and private medical insurance
- Additional benefits including cycle to work scheme, discounts hub, Kids Pass and more
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain detailed project programmes across the full project lifecycle
- Ensure plans accurately reflect scope, resource requirements, and key dependencies
- Identify risks and opportunities, monitor the critical path, and advise delivery teams on impacts and mitigation strategies
- Maintain high planning standards and ensure compliance with internal procedures, including:
- Implementation of project and activity coding structures
- Baseline development and management
- Production of programme narratives for client submission
- Regular schedule quality and integrity reviews
- Lead and develop the local planning team, providing mentoring and technical guidance
- Support the continuous improvement of planning processes and tools
About the Candidate
Required Skills & Experience
- Extensive planning experience within the water or wastewater sector
- Proven track record managing or mentoring a medium-sized planning team
- Strong hands-on expertise with Primavera P6
- Demonstrable leadership in collaborative planning environments, including:
- Programme development from concept through delivery
- Claims programme preparation and contractual programme adjustments
- Communicating complex programme information to varied stakeholders
- Ability to perform under pressure and meet challenging deadlines
- Proactive, solutions-focused approach with strong team support skills
Desirable
- Technical degree in a relevant discipline
About the Opportunity
Our client is a well-established integrated design and build provider within the UK water sector, delivering major infrastructure programmes across multiple long-term frameworks and alliances. The organisation is committed to building diverse, high-performing teams and offers an environment where employees are supported to develop and grow their careers.
They actively promote inclusion, wellbeing, and professional development, and support initiatives that help create a positive and supportive workplace culture.
If you’re hands-on, dependable, we’d love to hear from you.
If you are interested in applying for this Senior Planner position, then click the ‘apply now’ button.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are not always able to reply to all applications. If you haven’t heard back from us within 2 weeks, then please accept that your application has been unsuccessful for the role we currently have advertised.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications, and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
Finlay Jude Associates Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.