Title: Assistant Planner / Planning Engineer
Location: Slough
Salary: £50-60,000 + car allowance + package

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious Assistant Planner or Planning Engineer with a strong civil engineering background to join a leading main contractor delivering a major long-term infrastructure framework based in Slough.

This role offers the chance to play a key part in supporting and overseeing planning across a high volume of road and highways maintenance projects, contributing to the successful delivery of essential infrastructure works within a fast-paced operational environment. Working on a significant framework, you will gain invaluable experience across a diverse portfolio of highways schemes while developing your career within a respected contractor known for delivering major civil engineering projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the planning and programme management of multiple road, highways, and maintenance projects across a major framework
• Develop, update, and maintain detailed project programmes using Primavera P6
• Assist in coordinating multiple workstreams, ensuring effective sequencing and alignment across concurrent schemes
• Support the management of programme performance, progress tracking, and reporting across framework activities
• Work closely with operational, commercial, and project delivery teams to ensure accurate planning and scheduling
• Monitor project milestones, identify programme risks, delays, and opportunities, and support mitigation strategies
• Assist with short-term and long-term planning to ensure efficient resource utilisation and project delivery
• Apply NEC contract knowledge to support programme compliance, change management, and contractual obligations
• Produce progress reports, look-ahead programmes, and planning documentation for internal and client stakeholders

Candidate Requirements

• Previous experience in an Assistant Planner, Planning Engineer, or similar planning role within civil engineering or infrastructure
• Strong civil engineering background, ideally within roads, highways, maintenance, or infrastructure projects
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 is essential
• Solid working knowledge of NEC contracts and their application within project controls
• Experience supporting multiple project workstreams in a fast-paced delivery environment

What's on Offer

• £50-60,000 basis salary
• Pension, Healthcare, Life Assurance, Private Medical
• 28 days annual leave plus banks holidays
• Opportunity to join a leading main contractor on a major long-term framework
• Exposure to a high-profile portfolio of highways and road maintenance schemes
• Excellent career development and progression opportunities
• Valuable experience within major infrastructure and framework delivery
• Long-term project stability within a critical infrastructure environment

If you are looking for a new career challenge in planning and you would like to be considered for the above opportunity then please apply by sending your CV or call Matt Lilburn on for further information quoting reference 73765.

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