Site Planner

Site Planner

Location: Hinkley Point C

Type: Full-time

Security Clearance: UK Background Check / Vetting Required

About the Client:

Our client is an international engineering, maintenance, and asset management specialist operating across the nuclear, energy, petrochemical, and process sectors. With a UK workforce of over 4,500 employees, they specialize in delivering end-to-end services across all project lifecycle phases - from engineering and fabrication through to site assembly, operation, and maintenance.

Role Overview:

Based full-time on-site at Hinkley Point C, the Site Planner develops, maintains, and monitors contract schedules for assigned nuclear construction and installation scopes. Reporting progress to management and client teams, this role optimizes Primavera P6 to keep the contract within budget and target duration while managing critical path logic and emergent site works.

Key Responsibilities:

Programme Development & Baseline: Produce detailed, feasible project schedules from scope documentation; allocate estimated costs to activities to assist in programme baselining.

Progress Monitoring & Earned Value: Continually update and monitor contract programmes against actual site performance, conducting Earned Value Analysis (EVA) to track progress.

Critical Path & Risk Analysis: Predict and communicate critical path deviations and potential schedule bottlenecks to management to enable early corrective action.

Variations & Emergent Scope: Incorporate scope variations, emergent site works, and schedule adjustments into existing baselines smoothly.

Resource Planning & Reporting: Develop resource histograms to highlight labor requirements; generate regular progress reports highlighting key delays, reasons, and mitigation actions.

Candidate Requirements:

Software Fluency: Proven expertise in Primavera P6 and advanced Microsoft Excel for schedule generation, tracking, and reporting.

Planning Experience: Prior experience as a Planning Engineer or Assistant Planner within the Petrochemical, Power, Nuclear, or heavy Process industry sectors.

Technical Understanding: Solid grasp of engineering interfaces, construction sequencing, and how planning decisions impact site safety, quality, and commercial targets.

Communication & Analysis: Strong interpersonal skills to interface with site delivery teams and client stakeholders, with the analytical ability to construct logical schedules from raw scope data
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed