Job Description

Building a sustainable tomorrow

The Ferrovial BAM Rail joint venture has a successful history of delivering critical infrastructure for the UK on time and to budget together in joint venture partnership. They first worked together in 2010 as BFK, delivering three Crossrail contracts, including the longest stretch of tunnelling works between Royal Oak and Farringdon and Farringdon Station, the first central station to be completed on the Elizabeth Line. The team has also delivered the Silvertown Tunnel project together in East London and has been delivering excellence at each stage of HS2, such as Fusion JV for the Enabling Works packages, EKFB for the central Main Works Contract and now delivering the track infrastructure across the entire HS2 route.

The Medium Term Project Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and assuring Medium term (typically 6–12 week) design / construction and delivery programmes using P6 for the use in the short term the Aphex planning tool. The role supports ADT project and delivery teams by providing clear, reliable medium-term plan to allow look ahead plans to be produced that drive interdisciplinary coordination, productivity, and delivery certainty. The role operates within the Alliance delivery team (ADT) environment, promoting collaborative planning practices and strong integration between the members of the RSA engineering, construction, and commercial teams within the ADT.

Your team

• You will initially be based out of the HS2 project team office near Euston Station (for approx. 2 years), with a requirement to work from other project offices in Buckinghamshire later on as the project develops

Making Possible

• Makes day to day decisions on medium term planning logic, sequencing, and reporting
• Escalates risks, constraints, and conflicts impacting delivery outcomes
• Exercises judgement within established planning frameworks and governance
• Collate the medium planning data for the ADT deliverables
• Develop, maintain, and update the medium term programme on a monthly basis
• Chair the monthly progress review and programme update meeting
• Ensure forecast changes, emerging risks, and impacts are captured and reflected in the programme
• Maintain alignment and consistency between P6, Aphex (where applicable), and reporting cycles
• Ensure planning data is consistent across Aphex, P6 (where applicable), and reporting systems
• Ensure Aphex look ahead programmes are aligned to the agreed medium term P6 programme
• Facilitate the weekly accountability / collaborative planning sessions with ADT teams
• Ensure work activities are logically linked, realistic, and constraint free ahead of delivery
• Create the environment so updates / progress are completed regularly and timely following the weekly reporting cycle
• Capture forecast changes and emerging risks on a weekly basis
• Identify, manage, and escalate planning constraints and interfaces
• Publish weekly Aphex outputs, dashboards, and reports in accordance with reporting requirements
• Accurate and reliable medium term P6 programmes that reflect realistic ADT delivery commitments
• Timely identification of risks, clashes, and constraints affecting medium term delivery
• High quality planning data within ADT medium - term plan used in Aphex
• Day to day maintenance of medium term P6 plan
• Engaging with delivery teams to validate logic, sequence, and durations
• Supporting weekly accountability, coordination, and performance review meetings
• Ensuring planning outputs support safe, efficient, and coordinated delivery

What do you bring to the role?

Essential:

• Experience in a planning and project controls role within construction or infrastructure
• Proven knowledge and experience using P6 for medium term planning
• Experience using Aphex for short term and collaborative planning
• Strong understanding of rail systems sequencing and the design delivery processes
• Ability to work collaboratively with multi disciplinary teams
• Competent user of Microsoft Excel and other reporting tools

Desirable:

• Experience working in an alliance or joint venture environment
• Knowledge of Primavera P6 and integration with short term planning tools
• Engineering, construction management, or project controls qualification
• Experience on major infrastructure or rail projects

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family-friendly policies
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Zainab Rubbani, Recruiter, BAM UK & Ireland (Infrastructure), Email: zainab.rubbani@bam.com

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.