Let’s find your next opportunity
AI Assistant: {{ chat.assistant.message }}
Suggested roles matches
Sort By
{{ job.job_posting_title
}}
{{ job.job_posting_title }}
{{ job.is_cms_job ? (job.cities.split(';').length > 1 ? 'Various locations' : job.location_mappings[0]) : (job.location_mappings.length > 1 ? 'Various locations' : job.location_mappings[0]) }}
We are sorry there are no jobs that match your exact criteria. Try a new search term, or use the filters to continue browsing for available opportunities.
Suggested roles matches
{{ job.title }}
{{ job.title }}
{{ [job.cities[0], job.regions[0], job.countries[0]].join(', ') }}
Various locations
We are sorry there are no jobs that match your exact criteria. Try a new search term, or use the filters to continue browsing for available opportunities.
Let’s find your next opportunity
{{ job.job_posting_title
}}
{{ job.job_posting_title }}
{{ job.is_cms_job ? (job.cities.split(';').length > 1 ? 'Various locations' : job.location_mappings[0]) : (job.location_mappings.length > 1 ? 'Various locations' : job.location_mappings[0]) }}
On this page
Bristol, Bristol, England, United Kingdom | Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom | Manchester, England, United Kingdom | Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Overview
As a Senior Planner, you will be instrumental in driving the successful delivery of complex projects and programmes.
Your role
- Develop, manage and assure fully integrated project and programme schedules with robust logic, sequencing and critical path integrity.
- Lead planning input across bids, mobilisation and delivery phases, providing expert guidance on scheduling strategy and governance.
- Deliver high‑quality schedule analysis including critical path, scenario and "what‑if" modelling, with clear options and mitigation strategies.
- Integrate schedule, cost and risk information, supporting QSRA and wider project controls reporting.
- Maintain schedule baselines and govern change control, ensuring accuracy of scope, progress and impact representation.
- Produce high‑quality visual and written reporting, including progress updates, variance analysis and Earned Value insights.
- Communicate complex planning information clearly to senior leaders, clients and multidisciplinary teams.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders, supporting collaborative and outcome‑focused delivery.
- Support consistency and best practice across the Planning Function, contributing to process improvement and capability development.
- Mentor and guide junior planners, supporting skill development and reviewing outputs.
- Apply understanding of different contract forms (NEC/JCT/FIDIC etc.) and their implications for planning, deliverables and reporting.
- Operate effectively within a consultancy environment, ensuring outputs align with client expectations and professional standards.
Location
Various locations
Job Type
Full time
Ref
R-150281
Salary range
-
Shamily Gopal
Hi there, I'm Shamily Gopal and I manage this role
About you
- Planning experience on complex or multidisciplinary projects.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to ask the right questions, engage effectively with teams, and interrogate the scope to ensure clarity and completeness.
- Strong proficiency with planning tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, Open Plan, Asta Powerproject etc.
- Expertise in developing and assuring integrated project and programme schedules.
- Experience with schedule risk assessments, EVM reporting and integrated schedule–cost–risk analysis.
- Strong capability in baseline management, change control and maintaining schedule integrity.
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex planning insights clearly for senior stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior planners.
- Broad understanding of project controls disciplines and lifecycle governance.
- Good understanding of contract requirements (NEC, JCT, FIDIC etc.).
- Experience in a consultancy environment (advantageous).
Why choose AtkinsRéalis?
Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like-minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.
Rewards & benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
Make it brilliant, a career with AtkinsRéalis
Our supportive, collaborative culture inspires us as a global community every day.
Watch this short film and imagine what you could achieve here, too.
About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
Additional information
Security clearance
This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.
Related jobs
Related blogs
This International Women’s Day, we asked our people to share their stories...
From bold pivots to global impact, these stories redefine what’s possible. Read how women at AtkinsRéalis are shaping the future with purpose.
How Somali built a 20 Year engineering career and advocates for everyday equality
Meet Somali, a trailblazer in instrumentation and automation, and read how she shaped a thriving career across continents.
“I don’t wait for opportunities, I prepare for them and create them”: Building a career Jessica designed herself
From diving deep into data to diving into the ocean, Jessica thrives on challenge and growth. Read how she turned curiosity and initiative into a purpose‑driven career.
“Step into the discomfort of being seen”: Mamta on saying yes, earning two charterships in a year, and why visibility isn’t self-promotion
From Mumbai to projects across five countries, read how Mamta built a career powered by collaboration and courage.
From a LinkedIn message to leading talent strategy across regions: Meet Doaa
Discover Doaa’s journey from design to strategic talent leadership. Read how she fast tracked her growth and built strong hiring practices across regions.
From hiring strategies to nursery rhymes in minutes. Meet Sameera
From career leadership to motherhood’s lessons, meet Sameera and read how her story celebrates strength, growth, and belonging.
Step out of your comfort zone and build relationships: Jo looks back at twenty-five years with AtkinsRéalis and what has shaped her career
Discover Jo’s journey from volunteer work in Soweto to leading major UK planning projects. Read how courage and collaboration defined her path.
“Clarity isn’t arrogance”: Katiana on leading through complexity, treatment, and the woodland where she breathes properly again
From complex programmes to personal resilience, Katiana leads with empathy and strength. Read how her journey reshapes what strength looks like in the workplace.
17 years, one pencil, and a career she has never left: Clare on flood risk, Brownies, and being yourself
From “real life geography” to global adventures, read how Clare’s passion, people first leadership, and purpose continue to drive her forward.
“Visibility changes perception”: Milena on leadership, confidence, and her journey from London to Dubai
Discover Milena’s path to becoming one of CIBSE’s youngest Fellows, read how visibility and representation shaped her leadership philosophy.
A British champion, a regional director working part-time, and a strong believer in beautiful deviations. Meet Tracey.
From driving bold career moves to embracing fearless new beginnings, Tracey’s journey is anything but ordinary. Discover how she balances part‑time work with purpose, resilience, and growth.
“Your career growth is only limited by the ambition you harbour”: Piriya on 14 years, three countries, and the manager who changed everything
From Bengaluru to Ireland and back, read how Piriya built a global engineering career grounded in resilience and ambition.