Transmission & Distribution Senior Project Planner (Energy)

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role

We are interested to hear from applicants with previous experience in project planning and programme controls within the UK electricity transmission and distribution sectors, including familiarity with design management, multidisciplinary interfaces, programme risks, and the delivery of complex energy infrastructure projects.

This Role Includes

• Development, maintenance and challenge of robust project programmes, including clear logic, dependencies, interfaces, key dates and critical path activities.
• Working with project managers, design managers, technical leads and delivery teams to define deliverables, design review periods, client approvals and programme assumptions.
• Proactive identification and management of programme interfaces, constraints, risks, opportunities and change impacts across internal teams, clients and stakeholders.
• Creation, development and ongoing management of fully integrated project programmes, including resource loading, resource levelling, milestone tracking and progress forecasting.
• Monitoring, control and reporting of progress against agreed baselines, including analysis of float, dependencies, slippage, recovery actions and forecast completion dates.
• Supporting project controls activities by providing programme inputs to cost forecasting, resource planning, change management and project reporting.
• Working closely with engineering and design management resources to sequence design activities, manage review periods, coordinate interfaces and support timely delivery of project deliverables.

Support to bid teams in the development of tender programmes, planning assumptions, delivery methodologies and responses to client programme requirements.

Supporting the delivery of consultancy services to clients through frameworks, with a focus on programme planning, reporting and controls.

WSP has a long track record supporting utilities, contracting organisations, developers, owners and government agencies around the globe on transmission and distribution projects throughout the lifecycle. We respond to clients’ needs by harnessing our knowledge, technical leadership and project management skills, serving in diverse roles including as technical advisors, owner’s engineers, development engineers and lender’s engineers to solve complex transmission and distribution problems and produce innovative, high-quality, cost-effective solutions.

We’ve worked on every major element of power transmission and distribution network systems, including overhead power lines and towers, transformers and reactive compensation equipment, substations and switchyards, underground cables, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) and extra high-voltage (EHV) networks, as well as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and distribution management systems (DMS).

Energy Networks is an expanding team having recently gone through a reorganisation. We are dispersed across WSP offices across the UK and are supported by WSP colleagues worldwide in the delivery of projects and services to clients.

What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate

• Minimum of an HNC in a relevant engineering, construction, project controls or planning discipline.
• Experience developing, maintaining and challenging project programmes for energy transmission and distribution projects, ideally within the UK electricity sector.
• Knowledge or prior experience of the UK regulated and non-regulated transmission and distribution sectors, including the programme implications of design management, client reviews, interfaces and delivery risks.

Strong working knowledge of Primavera P6, with the ability to build logic-linked programmes, manage dependencies, resource load and level activities, analyse progress and support recovery planning.

A proactive approach to planning, with confidence to create, develop, test and challenge programmes rather than simply record updates.

Experience liaising with project managers, design managers, technical teams, clients and stakeholders to obtain planning inputs, agree assumptions and communicate programme risks and opportunities. Knowledge of NEC4 contracts would be desirable.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

About Us

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 11,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Work-life balance

At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community.

Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Belonging

We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote a culture of inclusivity.

Health & Wellbeing

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Our Virtual GP service gives you access to an NHS or Irish Medical Council GP at a time and place that suits you – giving you peace of mind and quick access to medical advice when you need it most. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.

Flex your time

To enhance work-life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day.

We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development

We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.

#WeAreWSP

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.