FDM is a global
business and technology consultancy seeking an experienced Senior Planner to
support a major nuclear site transition and decommissioning programme. Working
through a leading infrastructure consultancy, you will join a large integrated
delivery team supporting an Energy client on a complex and nationally
significant programme of work. This is initially a 12 month contract with good prospects to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Suffolk.
This is a unique
opportunity to work client-side within one of the UK's most highly regulated
environments, helping to shape and manage the transition, operational change,
and eventual decommissioning activities of a critical energy asset.
We are looking for a
planner who can do more than simply maintain schedules. The successful
candidate will bring strong analytical thinking, programme insight, and the
ability to challenge, influence, and drive effective decision making across
complex workstreams and stakeholder groups.
The role offers the
chance to contribute to a long-term programme with significant strategic
importance and excellent potential for extension.
Overview:
As a Senior Planner,
you will be responsible for developing, managing, and assuring integrated
programme schedules across a complex portfolio of transition and
decommissioning activities. You will work closely with programme managers,
engineers, project controls teams, and client stakeholders to provide robust
planning support, schedule analysis, and programme forecasting.
You will play a key
role in identifying risks, understanding programme dependencies, challenging
delivery assumptions, and ensuring that planning outputs support informed
decision-making across the programme.
This position is
ideally suited to an experienced planning professional who thrives in complex
environments, enjoys solving challenging programme issues, and has experience
operating within highly regulated industries.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain, and manage
integrated programme schedules across transition and decommissioning
workstreams.
- Provide planning expertise
and schedule assurance to programme and project delivery teams.
- Analyse complex programme
dependencies, constraints, and critical path activities.
- Challenge schedule
assumptions, sequencing, durations, and delivery approaches to improve
programme performance.
- Work closely with project
managers, engineers, and technical specialists to ensure realistic and
achievable plans.
- Monitor programme progress
against key milestones and strategic objectives.
- Identify schedule risks,
opportunities, and potential delays, providing mitigation recommendations.
- Support scenario planning,
what-if analysis, and programme forecasting activities.
- Produce planning reports,
dashboards, and executive-level updates for senior stakeholders.
- Ensure planning standards,
governance requirements, and programme controls processes are consistently
applied.
- Support change control, risk
management, and performance reporting activities.
- Collaborate across
multidisciplinary teams to drive delivery alignment and programme
transparency.
- Contribute to programme
reviews, assurance activities, and stakeholder governance forums.
- Provide insight and planning
expertise to support key strategic decisions throughout the programme
lifecycle.