Lead Planner (Contract)

Application Deadline: 12 February 2026

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Contract

Location: Yorkshire

Description

px group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business, providing innovative operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions to partners in high hazard, highly regulated industries. Our focus is improving operating performance of commercial and industrial facilities, with zero harm to people, environment, asset and reputation.

We are recruiting for a Lead Planner on a contract basis. This role is operating on a deliverables-based engagement with autonomy over methods, planning approach, and execution strategy.

You'll provide independent, outcome-based portfolio planning and delivery leadership for a multi-project engineering services framework. The contractor is responsible for defining and maintaining integrated portfolio plans and ensuring realistic, executable delivery strategies across EPCM and capital projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain portfolio-level integrated schedules across all project phases.
• Establish planning standards, baselines, and change control processes.
• Produce EPCM and execution schedules in Primavera P6.
• Perform project levelling, smoothing, and resource optimisation across the portfolio.
• Lead portfolio resource planning using MPP or equivalent tools.
• Provide strategic planning input, scenario modelling, and what-if analysis.
• Act as senior planning interface to the client.
• Independently challenge delivery assumptions, sequencing, and resourcing.
• Provide assurance on schedule realism, critical path, and execution risk.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.