🌟 Position: Senior Planner 🌟

📍 Location: 3 Days on Site at Gatwick Airport (Tue/Wed/Thur)

💼 Type: Full-time

📅 Start Date: Immediate

💰 Salary: Competitive

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Planner to join our dynamic award winning team. Our client is leading a highly ambitious airport infrastructure investment programme, encompassing major airfield upgrades, terminal enhancements and large-scale real estate developments. Supported by Government and an integrated supply chain, the programme is moving through critical stages of development, funding and regulatory alignment. As part of this growth, the organisation is strengthening its planning capability and seeking senior planners to play a key role in shaping programme controls, driving consistency across projects, and supporting the successful delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder schemes

About us: CMR is an award winning project controls consultancy that is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. Our approach and culture have been recognised globally, with CMR named Global Project Controls Small Business of the Year 2025 (Project Controls Expo UK Awards) and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2026 (Great Place to Work)

Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry.

Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention.

🔹 What’s in it for you?

• At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before.

• If you demonstrate the capability, our merit-based system will enable you to develop fast.

• We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas.

• Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference.

• We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough.

🔹 You'll

Develop, maintain and progress the Level 3/4 P6 programme for the Airfield & Civils works

Support NEC contract administration – reviewing contractor programmes, Compensation Events and delay analysis

Produce weekly/monthly progress reports, dashboards and trend analysis for the programme team

Work closely with commercial, risk and design teams to keep cost, schedule and change control aligned

Attend and contribute to progress/programme meetings, presenting schedule status to stakeholders

Support what-if scenario modelling as scope evolves, and inform re-baselining where required

Help embed consistent planning standards within a relatively new and growing team

🔹 We’re looking for

Essential

Minimum 5 years' planning/scheduling experience on major construction or infrastructure programmes

Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 – schedule development, maintenance and multi-disciplinary what-if scenario modelling

Experience managing and assessing NEC contract programmes (NEC3/NEC4), including Compensation Events and delay analysis

Good understanding of heavy civils works and sequencing (e.g. pavements, drainage, earthworks, stands infrastructure)

Ability to produce estimate programmes from first principles

Ability to work in a fluid, fast-paced environment and adapt to frequent scope and programme changes

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable liaising across client, contractor and multi-disciplinary teams

Eligible to obtain UK airside security clearance

Desirable

Previous experience on an aviation or airport infrastructure programme (airfield, terminal or airside civils)

Earned Value Management (EVM) experience – Planned vs Actual reporting

Experience with schedule assurance/quality reviews (e.g. DCMA-14 checks)

Exposure to tollgate/governance gateway processes

Good understanding of operational constraints and aviation regulatory requirements