Assistant Project Planner

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

The Assistant Project Planner plays a key role in assisting the planning and delivery of infrastructure projects, Reporting to the Senior Planner, this role contributes to the development, maintenance, and optimisation of project schedules and planning systems to ensure successful project execution. This is a Hybrid role but will require at least 2 days to be spent working from our Warwick office. Ideally candidates will be Midlands based.

What you’ll do:

• Assist in creating and maintaining project schedules using Primavera P6.
• Prepare weekly look-ahead plans, dashboards, and Planned vs Actual reports.
• Reviewing activity sequencing/phasing, durations, resources, and safety requirements with the operational teams, to ensure buildable programmes are developed, understood by the team, and submitted to the Internal Project Teams in line with contractual timescales.
• Assist the development of schedules at different stages of the lifecycle, with the ability to analyse, and document inter-departmental and intra-departmental business process flows.
• Produce tender plans to aid bids and work with operations to ensure best opportunity presented
• Provide project performance measurement and reporting.
• Support cost loading, resource allocation, and work bank maintenance.

• Experienced in Primavera P6
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Track project milestones, update progress, and flag delays or risks
• Understanding of planning, schedule management, and change control.
• Ability to interpret contractor plans and integrate them into master schedules
• Ideally have experience within the Rail or Telecoms sector
• Exposure to NEC / JCT contracts would be beneficial

What we offer:

At Telent, we’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage diverse perspectives across our teams.

The additional benefits with this role:

• 26 days holiday, plus public holidays, and the option to buy or sell days annually
• Company pension scheme
• A range of family friendly policies
• Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal
• Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.

We are guided by our values and behaviours:

Be Inclusive

Take Responsibility

Collaborate

Be Customer-focussed

Join us and help deliver critical infrastructure projects that make a real difference.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

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