Planning Manager

We're looking for a Planning Manager to join our ILIOS team based in West Burton.

Location: West Burton, Nottinghamshire
Hours: Full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

ILIOS is the Construction Partner for the UK's STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) fusion programme, working to design and build a prototype fusion energy power plant at West Burton in Nottinghamshire. As Planning Manager, you'll play a crucial role in establishing and maintaining planning standards across this groundbreaking programme, leading the development of the Integrated Master Schedule and ensuring effective delivery of this significant clean energy infrastructure project.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Planning Manager, you'll be working within the PMO team, supporting them in ensuring effective programme delivery through high-quality planning and schedule management. Your day to day will include:

• Leading the development and continuous improvement of planning standards and best practices, ensuring consistent application of Primavera P6 across the organisation
• Owning and maintaining the Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring accurate integration of project schedules, dependencies, and milestones
• Providing schedule governance and assurance, analysing performance and critical path activities to support decision-making
• Collaborating closely with project teams and project controls to ensure schedule alignment and integration of risk-informed planning practices
• Leading and coaching the planning community to drive capability, consistency, and organisational planning maturity

What are we looking for?

This role of Planning Manager is great for you if:

• You have significant experience in project planning and scheduling within complex programmes or major project environments
• You possess advanced Primavera P6 expertise, including schedule development, integration, governance, and analysis
• You have demonstrable experience developing and managing Integrated Master Schedules across multiple projects and workstreams
• You have a strong understanding of planning best practices, schedule quality standards, and critical path methodology
• You hold a professional qualification in Project Controls, Planning, Project Management, or a related discipline

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a BPSS Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.