Senior Planner

Devonport Dockyard Upgrade – Plymouth
Salary: £50,000 – £70,000 + package
British Nationals only

Carmichael UK is recruiting an experienced Planner to support a major upgrade programme at Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth. This is a high-profile, long-term infrastructure project requiring strong planning capability across both tender and delivery stages.

Due to the secure nature of the site, British nationality is essential.

Reporting to the Planning Manager and Project Lead, you will be responsible for delivering robust, compliant programmes in line with project planning standards and wider business management systems. You will work closely with the project team, client stakeholders, and supply chain to ensure planning outputs support successful delivery.

The role covers both tender and contract stages and may include mentoring or supervising junior planners as required.

Tender Stage

• Develop tender programmes in line with planning standards and procedures
• Identify planning scope, constraints, risks, and contractual requirements
• Define construction methodology, sequencing, and commissioning strategy
• Establish calendars, working hours, and construction outputs with operational and estimating teams
• Produce tender planning deliverables including programmes, reports, presentations, and planning narratives
• Support value engineering exercises and identify programme risks and opportunities
• Generate time risk allowances and delivery strategies
• Interface with estimators to reconcile labour, plant, and material resources
• Apply resource levelling techniques as required
• Present planning inputs at tender handover meetings

Contract Stage

• Produce, manage, and maintain the Contract Programme in line with project standards
• Maintain planning deliverables including monthly programme updates and reports
• Manage the overall planning strategy, activity sequencing, and logic
• Communicate programme updates to the Project Lead and wider project team
• Support effective programme control and reporting to the client

• Degree or HND in a relevant discipline preferred
• Professional membership (or working towards) such as RICS, CIOB, ICE, RIBA, or CIBSE advantageous
• Strong understanding of construction methodologies and sequencing
• Solid commercial and contractual awareness
• Proficient in planning software and digital planning tools
• Confident communicator with the ability to work collaboratively across multi-discipline teams

If your experience doesn’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply — this role offers excellent opportunity for progression within a complex infrastructure environment.

• Salary £50,000 – £70,000
• Competitive annual leave
• Pension and life assurance
• Private medical cover
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Employee wellbeing and support programmes