OHL P6 Planner

OHL P6 Planner – Overhead Lines

We’re looking for a passionate P6 Planner to join our Overhead Lines team!

In this exciting role, you’ll be responsible for developing, maintaining, and assuring an end-to-end project schedule that supports the successful delivery of work across our internal teams. You’ll ensure clear visibility of key deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities, enabling effective governance, reporting, and informed decision-making throughout the programme lifecycle.

Working closely with stakeholders, you’ll develop and manage integrated project schedules across all phases of development and delivery, ensuring projects are planned, monitored, and controlled effectively. You’ll also establish and embed planning standards, processes, and best practices in line with National Grid requirements, providing consistency and assurance across the programme portfolio.

You'll be responsible for developing and maintaining project schedules using P6, monitoring progress, updating key records and ensuring accurate documentation is maintained throughout the project lifecycle. Regular engagement with stakeholders will be a core part of the role, requiring strong relationship-building skills and effective face-to-face communication across various sites and functions.

This is a peripatetic role with a base location across our North, East or West regions. North locations include West Boldon, Skelton, Staythorpe and Penwortham; East locations include Bramford, Northfleet, Pelham and Fleet; and West locations include Bushbury, Pentir, Swansea and Bristol.

National travel is required as part of the role, and a flexible approach to working across multiple sites is essential.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and manage the overall project schedule with key deliverables, milestones and critical path visibility through all phases of the programme (end-to-end).
• Work with Project Managers within the programme to ensure project plans align to NGET/Programme Governance; update the project schedule to reflect project status.
• Ensure accurate assessment and communication of progress against baseline project plans.
• Report key milestone progress, deviations from the baselined plan, and resource constraints.
• Provide weekly/monthly analysis and reporting as required within the programme.
• Continuously review and improve processes to drive value and establish best-practice planning and controls.
• Analyse the critical path and interfaces between internal team plans and submissions.

What You'll Have

Strong experience of planning tools and associated environments (e.g., Primavera P6, MS Project, MS Excel within an MS SharePoint environment).

Experience of working with senior stakeholders to understand requirements and set clear expectations.

Experience in Construction and/or Business Change programmes.

Knowledge of NEC contract processes.

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with demonstrable experience of stakeholder management.

Experience of working in a demanding planning role with the ability to adapt to a changing environment.

Experience of working across large and complex internal project teams and with multiple parties within the organisation.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get

£49,625 to £54,041 depending on experience

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance, Job Requirement Car and competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

More Information

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 2 November 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 16 November 26 onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About Us

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating, and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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