Planner

About the role

Planner - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location: Peterborough (at least 3 working days required in office)

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance: Overview | LinkedIn} @Anglian Water's one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground-breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry-leading partners: Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. And together, we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water's capital investment programme.

Entering AMP 8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we're taking on nature-based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We're setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

We are now looking for an experienced Planner to take ownership of project schedules, drive delivery against the plan, and challenge delay and deviation to ensure successful project outcomes.

What you'll be doing

As Planner, you will be a key member of a highly collaborative delivery team. You will develop, manage and maintain robust project plans, using your experience and enthusiasm to drive efficiency, performance and continuous improvement across projects.

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop and maintain detailed, fully integrated project plans in line with @one Alliance planning methodologies and best practice


• Lead scope and resource planning, ensuring all deliverables and resource requirements are clearly captured


• Proactively manage risk and opportunity, identifying critical paths and driving mitigation strategies to maintain momentum


• Support 4D planning and digital rehearsals, creating visual simulations to enhance construction planning and execution


• Communicate planning strategy clearly to ensure alignment across project teams and stakeholders


• Uphold planning standards and ensure compliance with @one Alliance processes and industry regulations


• Champion a safety‑first mindset, ensuring planning activities fully support safe delivery

Who we're looking for

What We're Looking For

• Proven planning experience on civil engineering projects, ideally within the water sector


• Strong proficiency in Primavera P6 and collaborative planning techniques


• Ability to interpret technical drawings and translate them into clear, actionable project plans


• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to engage and influence at all levels


• A solutions‑focused, adaptable approach with a drive for efficiency and outperformance

Join @one Alliance and play a key role in shaping the future of infrastructure delivery. Your expertise will make a lasting impact as we move into AMP8.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Balfour Beatty's Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We're making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we've got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We're looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com