Planning and Scheduling Lead (Sizewell C)

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

7/2/2025

About The Role

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Planning and Scheduling Lead on the Sizewell C Project. You’ll work with true experts who’ll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we’ll help you take it much, much further.

Sizewell C will create a 3.2 gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for at least 60 years. It will be built next to Sizewell B which began operating in 1995 and has so far avoided more than 76 million tonnes of carbon emissions.

What you'll be doing

As a Planning and Scheduling Lead, you will have the following accountabilities,

• Lead and inspire a high-performing planning team with the correct, alliancing, behaviours fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration across all alliance members.
• Understand, demonstrate and champion the principles of the MEH alliance.
• Drive the creation of a detailed project schedule from the early stages. Establish a robust project controls baseline that will be used for all future performance tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and update initial project schedules using tools like Primavera or MS Project. Establish the sequencing and tracking methodologies that will guide the project as it progresses.
• Ensure cost management processes are integrated with the project schedule, supporting budget profiles, variance analysis, and life-cycle costing.
• Identify, analyse, and mitigate early-stage risks that could impact the project's, schedule. Implement risk mapping and uncertainty mapping to the schedule collaborating with the risk team.
• Establish reporting frameworks to deliver regular progress updates for stakeholders. Utilise earned value management (EVM) to strengthen performance assessment baselines and forecast project outcomes accurately.
• Coordinate and track the allocation of initial resources by resource loading the schedule, including personnel, equipment, and materials. Produce resource histograms and profiles to support the delivery and resource management at the task level where appropriate.
• Implement robust change control processes to assess and manage scope changes across the MEHA baseline, ensuring all changes are documented, approved, and effectively communicated.
• Collaborate across MEHA partners to align schedules, ensuring consistency in standards, methodologies, and strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with quality teams to define early-stage quality standards and control measures, ensuring that as the project progresses, it adheres to the highest standards.
• Collaborate with the commercial and contract management teams to ensure that all contractual obligations are met and any variations are managed effectively within the project controls framework.
• Develop and deploy a suite of digital tools to enable advanced data analysis and forecasting, leveraging AI, machine learning, and BIM technologies to enhance project planning and decision-making.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement
• Work cross-functionally to identify and implement the digital tools and systems required to support full operating capability within the alliance.
• Establish transparent and effective communication channels across all alliance partners, clients, contractors, and internal teams to ensure alignment and visibility into project performance.
  
  

Who we're looking for

We're looking for,

• A degree or equivalent with professional work experience in one or more specific disciplines relative to the role profile.
• MAPM, P6 Advanced, accreditation plus experience planning on large complex scale projects.
• Extensive experience as a Lead Planner on large and complex infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on projects in their early stages of development.
• Experience in the overall project controls integration and how the schedule is vital in delivering success.
• In-depth understanding of earned value analysis (EVA) and other key project controls methodologies.
• Previous experience in developing detailed schedules and working with a large team of planning engineers with interface schedules.
• Ability to gain a security clearance.
  
  

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
  
  

About Us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.