Programme Planning Manager

About the role

The Programme Planning Manager will lead the planning team and set strategic direction for a complex, multi-stakeholder portfolio of sustainability-led infrastructure projects. This role involves developing and maintaining integrated schedules, performing schedule assurance, and coordinating with cost, risk, and change control functions to ensure project alignment. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping programme controls and supporting delivery within a dynamic, award-winning consultancy environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Programme Planning team and set strategic direction for Planning within the programme
• Develop and maintain the integrated P6 schedule for the Sustainability programme
• Perform pre-Governance Schedule Assurance of project schedules
• Conduct NEC contract programme reviews, including Compensation Event assessment and delay analysis
• Produce progress reporting for programme leadership, incorporating EVM and Planned vs Actual analysis
• Coordinate with Cost, Risk and Change Control functions to keep schedule, cost and risk aligned
• Support governance and tollgate submissions for the Sustainability programme board

Required skills

• Primavera P6
• NEC contract management
• NEC3
• NEC4
• Delay analysis
• MEP works
• Reporting
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Infrastructure planning

Nice to have

• Airport infrastructure
• Aviation
• Sustainability
• Decarbonisation
• Earned Value Management
• EVM
• Schedule assurance
• DCMA-14
• PMO governance
• Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis

Qualifications

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

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• 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. Named Global Project Controls Small Business of the Year 2025 and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2026, the company aims to re-imagine project controls through a digital lens.