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 proposa...