Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people across more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving the world’s most complex challenges together.

The Arcadis Climate Adaptation programme delivers resilience projects across England and Wales. This strategic Senior Planner role will develop and implement robust planning governance, processes, and systems; integrate programme schedules; and drive continuous improvement in delivery performance.

As a leader within our Programme & Project Management team, you will build and mature our planning capability while providing hands-on planning leadership for major delivery across the environment sector and local authorities. You will offer expert advice on earned value management, resource requirements, programme risks, performance reporting, and outturn cost forecasting.

You will collaborate closely with portfolio leads, discipline leads, and business stakeholders to optimise resource forecasting, align plans with delivery capabilities, and strengthen financial and schedule control. Additionally, you will support tendering activities by delivering comprehensive programme inputs, resourcing strategies, and cost forecast data to improve bid accuracy and deliverability.

Your leadership will be critical in maturing planning capability, enhancing predictability, and enabling the successful delivery of complex resilience infrastructure programmes.

Experience
- Significant experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally within complex infrastructure, environment-sector, local authority programmes, or the water sector.
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong understanding of UK infrastructure delivery contexts, including governance, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements.
- Proficient in planning software such as Safran, Primavera P6, and MS Project.
- Experience with project controls, cost engineering, and financial operations.
- Familiarity with different contracting environments and commercial models.

About you
Organised, commercially aware, and an excellent communicator with the ability to provide strategic input and collaborate effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications
- Degree, HNC, or HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related subject.
- Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable.
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification is advantageous.