Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
As a Senior Planner, you will play a key role in the successful delivery of major infrastructure programmes, providing planning leadership across complex engineering and construction projects. You will be responsible for developing, maintaining and assuring integrated project schedules, ensuring that programme controls processes support effective project delivery and informed decision-making.
Working as part of an integrated project controls and delivery team, you will provide expert planning support throughout the project lifecycle, from early development and tender assessment through to delivery and close-out. You will work closely with project managers, engineering teams, contractors and clients to develop robust programmes, identify delivery risks and drive performance improvement.
Role accountabilities:
- Lead the development, maintenance and assurance of baseline and detailed project schedules across one or more major projects or programmes, ensuring compliance with client and company standards.
- Undertake critical path analysis and provide insightful reporting on programme performance, key milestones, risks, constraints, dependencies and opportunities.
- Review, challenge and assess contractor programmes and time-related submissions in accordance with contractual requirements, including NEC3 and NEC4 contracts.
- Apply earned value management and integrated project controls principles to support forecasting, performance management and informed decision-making.
- Align programme reporting, management information and schedule dashboards to support governance, assurance and executive-level decision making.
- Support project teams throughout tender, development and delivery phases, providing planning expertise, independent assurance and programme recovery support where required.
- Facilitate programme reviews, collaborative planning workshops and stakeholder engagements to improve alignment, delivery confidence and project outcomes.
- Mentor and develop Assistant Planners and Planners, while promoting planning best practice and contributing to the continuous improvement of standards, processes and tools across the business.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree qualified or equivalent relevant experience.
- Significant experience delivering planning services on major infrastructure, utilities, energy, transportation or other regulated industry programmes.
- Expert user of Primavera P6, with extensive experience in schedule development, forecasting, reporting and programme controls.
- Strong understanding of engineering, procurement and construction project lifecycles.
- Demonstrable experience in critical path analysis, schedule assurance, programme recovery planning and performance management.
- Extensive NEC3 and NEC4 contract experience, including contractor programme assessment and time-related submissions.
- Experience applying earned value management, progress measurement and integrated project controls techniques.
- Proven ability to work within integrated client, contractor and consultancy teams and engage effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within the electrical transmission and distribution sector is desirable, although experience in other regulated sectors such as rail, nuclear, water or aviation would also be considered.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
Skills Required
- Degree qualification or equivalent relevant experience
- Significant experience delivering planning services on major infrastructure, utilities, energy, transportation, or regulated-industry programs
- Expert proficiency with Primavera P6, including schedule development, forecasting, reporting, and program controls
- Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, and construction project lifecycles
- Experience with critical path analysis, schedule assurance, program recovery planning, and performance management
- Extensive NEC3 and NEC4 contract experience, including contractor program assessment and time-related submissions
- Experience applying earned value management, progress measurement, and integrated project controls techniques
- Experience working within integrated client, contractor, and consultancy teams and engaging senior stakeholders
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience in the electrical transmission and distribution sector
- Experience in regulated sectors such as rail, nuclear, water, or aviation
Arcadis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcadis and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcadis.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is frequently described as good, with strong medical benefits cited in multiple regions. Feedback suggests healthcare is a relative bright spot within the total rewards package.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) and pension offerings are often called out positively, with contributions viewed as solid. Feedback suggests retirement benefits enhance the overall package even when salary sentiment is mixed.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working arrangements, hybrid options, and wellbeing support (such as EAP and benefits platforms) are commonly highlighted. Feedback suggests the flexibility of the package adds meaningful value beyond base pay.
Arcadis Insights
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
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