Location
Manchester

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Due to continued growth across our Infrastructure, Energy and Rail portfolios, we are looking to appoint Planning Engineers to join our expanding Planning & Scheduling team within our Project, Programme and Commercial Management (PMCM) business. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team delivering planning and project controls services on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes.

From major rail enhancements and electrification schemes to critical energy, power and utilities projects, you'll be helping clients deliver projects that support economic growth, sustainability and the UK's transition to a low-carbon future.

As a Planning Engineer, you'll work closely with project managers, engineers, commercial teams and delivery partners, helping to develop and maintain robust programmes that enable successful project delivery. You'll have the opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of clients and projects, gaining exposure to complex infrastructure challenges while building your expertise within a leading global consultancy.

We're looking for experienced professionals who can bring established planning, scheduling or project controls expertise to our growing team. You may currently be working within a consultancy, contractor, client organisation or infrastructure owner and be looking for greater project variety, exposure to nationally significant programmes and the opportunity to further develop your career.

You'll be joining a collaborative team within PMCM, a business comprising more than 500 professionals across the UK. We are committed to investing in our people through mentoring, technical development, professional accreditation and clear career progression opportunities.

If you're passionate about delivering major infrastructure projects and want to be part of a team shaping the future of Energy and regional Rail delivery across the UK, we'd love to hear from you. Our continued growth means there has never been a better time to join WSP.

Experience
- Planning and scheduling within infrastructure, construction, Energy, or regional Rail environments.
- Developing programmes from first principles, maintaining and analysing project schedules using industry-standard planning and scheduling software.
- Working as part of an integrated project team, supporting the successful delivery of complex infrastructure or capital delivery projects.
- Understanding project delivery lifecycles, programme management principles and applying project controls methodologies including Earned Value Management (EVM).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret project data and produce basis of schedule and schedule narrative documents.
- Excellent client communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience facilitating planning workshops with multi-disciplinary/client teams.
- Supporting programme reporting, change/risk management, NEC schedule assurance and project performance analysis.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

About you
Experienced, collaborative and motivated professional seeking to contribute to nationally significant infrastructure programmes. You are passionate about delivering major projects and eager to develop your career within a team that values technical excellence, collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications
- Degree in Civil Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
- Consultancy, project construction or client-side project controls experience is desirable.
- Professional accreditation, Chartership or progress towards professional qualification or APM is advantageous.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.