Senior Planner - Aviation

About the role

The Senior Planner will play a key role in shaping programme controls and driving consistency across complex, multi-stakeholder airport infrastructure projects. This role involves managing Level 3/4 P6 programmes, supporting NEC contract administration, and collaborating with commercial, risk, and design teams to ensure schedule alignment. The successful candidate will help embed planning standards within a growing team while supporting the delivery of major airfield and terminal developments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and progress the Level 3/4 P6 programme for the Airfield & Civils works
• Support NEC contract administration including reviewing contractor programmes, Compensation Events and delay analysis
• Produce weekly/monthly progress reports, dashboards and trend analysis for the programme team
• Work closely with commercial, risk and design teams to keep cost, schedule and change control aligned
• Attend and contribute to progress/programme meetings, presenting schedule status to stakeholders
• Support what-if scenario modelling as scope evolves, and inform re-baselining where required
• Help embed consistent planning standards within a relatively new and growing team

Required skills

• Planning
• Scheduling
• Primavera P6
• NEC3
• NEC4
• Heavy civils
• Stakeholder management

Nice to have

• Aviation infrastructure
• Earned Value Management
• EVM
• DCMA-14
• Schedule assurance
• Governance gateway processes

Qualifications

• Full right to work in the UK
• Eligible to obtain UK airside security clearance

Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Private Healthcare
• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Performance-based bonus
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Long Service Leave
• Training and professional development
• Regular social events
• Perkbox

About the Company

CMR is an award-winning project controls consultancy passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. They are a team-focused organization recognized as a Great Place to Work, aiming to re-imagine project controls through a digital lens.