Senior Planner (South Coast)
Added 12 Oct · still live
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Salary
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£41,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2481 is an eligible occupation, but we are only 34% sure that is the right code. Balfour Beatty plc is a licensed sponsor, so if the code fits, the role should qualify. Check the occupation eligibility rules against what the job actually involves.
This could also be SOC 2455 (Construction project managers and related professionals) or SOC 3116 (Planning, process and production technicians). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
About the role
About The Role
At Balfour Beatty, we’re proud to deliver the infrastructure that connects communities, supports economic growth and helps shape the world around us. From major civil engineering projects to essential infrastructure improvements, our work makes a lasting difference.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Planner to join our Regional Civils team, supporting our diverse portfolio of projects across the South Coast. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the successful delivery of complex civil engineering projects, bringing your planning expertise to a team that thrives on collaboration, innovation and delivering results.
As a Senior Planner, you’ll take the lead in developing and managing detailed construction programmes, ensuring projects are effectively planned, resources are optimised and key milestones are achieved. Working closely with project teams and key stakeholders, you’ll provide strategic planning insight, identify potential risks and opportunities, and help drive efficient, successful project outcomes.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Planner You Will
You Will Have The Following
At Balfour Beatty, we’re proud to deliver the infrastructure that connects communities, supports economic growth and helps shape the world around us. From major civil engineering projects to essential infrastructure improvements, our work makes a lasting difference.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Planner to join our Regional Civils team, supporting our diverse portfolio of projects across the South Coast. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the successful delivery of complex civil engineering projects, bringing your planning expertise to a team that thrives on collaboration, innovation and delivering results.
As a Senior Planner, you’ll take the lead in developing and managing detailed construction programmes, ensuring projects are effectively planned, resources are optimised and key milestones are achieved. Working closely with project teams and key stakeholders, you’ll provide strategic planning insight, identify potential risks and opportunities, and help drive efficient, successful project outcomes.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Planner You Will
- Produce and present clear programme reports, highlighting progress, key issues, dependencies and potential impacts on delivery.
- Support project teams in managing change, assessing programme implications and developing recovery plans where required.
- Mentor and support less experienced planners, sharing knowledge and promoting consistent planning standards and best practice.
- Build strong working relationships with internal teams, clients and supply chain partners to ensure a coordinated approach to project planning
You Will Have The Following
- Proven experience developing and managing complex construction programmes.
- Strong knowledge of planning and scheduling techniques, including critical path analysis and programme risk management.
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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…
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you
require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via [email protected]
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via [email protected]
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Where this offer sits in the market
Quality control and planning engineers (SOC 2481) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~52k in sampleSOC 2481
- Middle half £35,620–52,676
- Median £43,576
- Going rate £41,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £33,400–37,100
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2481 going rate of £41,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.