Principal Planning Engineer
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Location
The Home, United Kingdom
Posted At
5/16/2025
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Description
Job Description
Reporting to the Discipline Lead for our Planning Capability, you will be working for one of the regional delivery offices. As Principal Planning Engineer, you will be responsible for all planning and schedule management activities within the corporate planning tool ensuring a true representation of the Capital Delivery Programme is established and maintained within the corporate planning tool.
This will cover both briefed and unbriefed schemes, from concept and initial studies to full funding and project initiation to benefits realisation and closure.
Utilising your knowledge and expertise in the Project Controls discipline you will be responsible for providing Project Control solutions and services to our clients. You will also be a key contributor to improving processes, procedures and tools utilised by the function.
As a Principal Planning Engineer, you will ensure visibility and alignment with Thames Water’s business plan and Performance Commitments throughout.
You will also act as an expert adviser, providing support and training to maintain agreed minimum standards and improve the quality of data used for upwards reporting. Close cooperation with the Programme Planners in the Programme Management team to ensure alignment of the overall AMP7 delivery is essential to ensure that any issues can be resolved or escalated as appropriate.
This role is home-based with client / site office-based attendance in Reading/Oxford/Watford/London Region as per business needs - circa 2 days per week.
Our informal dynamic working policy allows all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual preferences and subject to role, client, business and team requirements.
Responsibilities
Work with allocated delivery office to ensure the following data in P6 is as accurate as possible:
Any unbriefed Value of Work Done (VOWD)
Unbriefed and briefed SKFs
Unbriefed and briefed milestones
Work with allocated delivery office to highlight any data conflicts or concerns to ensure these are addressed.
Work with Programme planners in the programme management team to ensure alignment of the overall AMP7 delivery and that any issues can be resolved or escalated as appropriate
Plan the activities that need to be undertaken by the Project team ensuring outage plans are visible and interlinked with the contractor programmes of work
Review the contractor plans in line with the contract deliverables
Ensure that all auditable milestones have the correct documentation in place prior to being claimed
Qualifications
Previous planning experience in a similar role ideally within Infrastructure Consultancy will be advantageous along with ;
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
About The Team
Advisory is a core part of Costain’s strategy to broaden our mix of services and grow margin performance. We work with clients on multiple strategic fronts to understand, articulate and provide solutions for their most complex challenges and to facilitate further growth in multiple areas.
Our vision is to be recognised as a leading infrastructure consultancy who transform client capabilities and help them achieve enhanced value for money.
This is a key part of Costain achieving its mission to shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem.
Reporting to the Discipline Lead for our Planning Capability, you will be working for one of the regional delivery offices. As Principal Planning Engineer, you will be responsible for all planning and schedule management activities within the corporate planning tool ensuring a true representation of the Capital Delivery Programme is established and maintained within the corporate planning tool.
This will cover both briefed and unbriefed schemes, from concept and initial studies to full funding and project initiation to benefits realisation and closure.
Utilising your knowledge and expertise in the Project Controls discipline you will be responsible for providing Project Control solutions and services to our clients. You will also be a key contributor to improving processes, procedures and tools utilised by the function.
As a Principal Planning Engineer, you will ensure visibility and alignment with Thames Water’s business plan and Performance Commitments throughout.
You will also act as an expert adviser, providing support and training to maintain agreed minimum standards and improve the quality of data used for upwards reporting. Close cooperation with the Programme Planners in the Programme Management team to ensure alignment of the overall AMP7 delivery is essential to ensure that any issues can be resolved or escalated as appropriate.
This role is home-based with client / site office-based attendance in Reading/Oxford/Watford/London Region as per business needs - circa 2 days per week.
Our informal dynamic working policy allows all employees to discuss and agree flexibility to where, when and how they work based on individual preferences and subject to role, client, business and team requirements.
Responsibilities
Work with allocated delivery office to ensure the following data in P6 is as accurate as possible:
Any unbriefed Value of Work Done (VOWD)
Unbriefed and briefed SKFs
Unbriefed and briefed milestones
Work with allocated delivery office to highlight any data conflicts or concerns to ensure these are addressed.
Work with Programme planners in the programme management team to ensure alignment of the overall AMP7 delivery and that any issues can be resolved or escalated as appropriate
Plan the activities that need to be undertaken by the Project team ensuring outage plans are visible and interlinked with the contractor programmes of work
Review the contractor plans in line with the contract deliverables
Ensure that all auditable milestones have the correct documentation in place prior to being claimed
Qualifications
Previous planning experience in a similar role ideally within Infrastructure Consultancy will be advantageous along with ;
- Significant experience in applied programme delivery planning experience and ideally within the Water Sector.
- Membership of a recognised body (e.g. APM/ Practitioner MSP/ Prince2/P3O/PPSO/ITIL).
- A track record in hands-on delivery planning, utilising various planning tools, with Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project as a minimum.
- The confidence to manage teams and communicate at all levels, driving commitments and improvements to meet commercial and technical objectives and deadlines.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to analyse data and present findings to senior teams.
- Eligibility to obtain Security Clearance. British National or UK Residency for 5 years.
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
About The Team
Advisory is a core part of Costain’s strategy to broaden our mix of services and grow margin performance. We work with clients on multiple strategic fronts to understand, articulate and provide solutions for their most complex challenges and to facilitate further growth in multiple areas.
Our vision is to be recognised as a leading infrastructure consultancy who transform client capabilities and help them achieve enhanced value for money.
This is a key part of Costain achieving its mission to shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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