Project Planner – Energy from Waste (Contract)
Location: Cambridgeshire
Contract Type: Contract (Outside IR35)
Day Rate: £450–£500
Sector: Energy from Waste
Overview
H9 Talent Solutions are recruiting for an experienced Project Planner to join a major Energy from Waste project based in Cambridgeshire. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules, ensuring accurate reporting and control of project progress throughout the engineering, procurement, and construction phases.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules covering engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.
• Work closely with project managers, engineers, and commercial teams to ensure alignment between schedule, cost, and scope.
• Monitor progress against baseline plans, identifying variances and providing early warnings of potential delays.
• Prepare regular progress updates, lookahead schedules, and performance reports for senior management and clients.
• Integrate subcontractor and supplier schedules into the overall master programme.
• Support change management processes, assessing the time impact of variations and delays.
• Conduct critical path analysis and propose recovery or mitigation plans when required.
• Attend project review meetings, providing planning input and insights to drive decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with client reporting requirements and company planning standards.
• Support the preparation of tender and proposal schedules where required.
Experience & Skills Required
• Proven experience as a Project Planner within the Energy from Waste, power generation, or major industrial construction sectors.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 (essential) and working knowledge of MS Project.
• Strong understanding of project controls processes, progress measurement, and earned value analysis.
• Demonstrable experience managing schedules under EPC or NEC contract frameworks.
• Excellent analytical, organisational, and communication skills.
• Ability to interpret complex engineering and construction information.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently within a multidisciplinary team.
• Degree or HNC/HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.