Planning Specialist

At AtkinsRéalis, we embrace diversity and inclusion, valuing world-class talent across all backgrounds. We understand that everyone has unique priorities, so we offer flexible and remote working options tailored to your needs. Whether it's reduced workweeks, buying additional leave, or support transitioning back from a career break, we’re here to help you thrive.

As a Project Planner within our Complex Infrastructure team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful delivery of large-scale, multi-disciplinary projects. Your expertise in planning and project management will be instrumental in creating, maintaining, and analysing project schedules to support our clients' goals in transportation, urban development, and critical infrastructure systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Schedule Preparation: Develop and maintain baseline project schedules, identifying critical paths, resources, work breakdown structures (WBS), milestones, and documentation specific to complex infrastructure projects.
• Interactive Planning: Lead interactive planning workshops, ensuring robust and realistic schedules are created using best practices and benchmarking data.
• Schedule Alignment: Ensure schedules are logically linked and aligned with project deliverables, execution plans, and contracting strategies.
• Progress Updates: Validate work progress, update schedules, and manage processes to ensure accuracy in line with complex infrastructure project requirements.
• Variance Analysis: Identify and explain variances between schedules, plans, earned value, and forecasts. Communicate these findings clearly to the project team, including key performance indicators like Earned Value, SPI, and CPI.
• Resource Management: Collaborate with the project team to define and maintain required resources and man-hours, ensuring alignment with cost control.
• Reporting and Communication: Prepare project reports, trending charts, and schedule analyses. Lead progress updates and communications tailored to stakeholders in the infrastructure sector.

Required Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Knowledge of project planning software, preferably Primavera P6.
• Understanding of project management techniques (e.g., critical path method, earned value analysis) with relevance to infrastructure projects.
• Experience in project planning, analysis, and reporting, particularly in the transportation, urban development, or critical infrastructure sectors.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent report writing, presentation, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead meetings and collaborate effectively with clients and stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities.

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.