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Programme Planner\n\nSalary: Dependent on experience + Up to 20% performance bonus\n\nBenefits: Up to 7% matched Pension, private medical insurance, and travel insurance\n\nHours/days per week: 37.5 hours/5 days\n\nPlace of work: Bradford, Hybrid\n\nAbout the client\n\nTo achieve Britain’s climate goals, there is an urgent need for a shift from fossil fuel heating to low-carbon alternatives—and heat networks offer a proven, scalable option.\n\nOur client is one of the UK’s leading developers of low-carbon heat networks, committed to decarbonising heat in towns and cities and helping accelerate the transition to net zero.\n\nTheir heat networks offer the lowest-cost, simplest, and fastest route to reducing carbon emissions from heating at scale, while also creating a long-term foundation for healthier, greener urban areas.\n\nOur client has grown from a start-up to managing more than £600 million worth of heat-network projects, with plans to invest £1 billion over the next eight years to build new networks across the UK.\n\nThe team includes some of the most experienced professionals in the sector—having delivered and operated more than 100 district heating projects.\n\nAbout the job\n\nThe role focuses on leading and coordinating the planning and scheduling of district heat network projects during the delivery phase, encompassing construction, commissioning, and operational handover. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that projects progress efficiently, remain within budget, and support our clients strategic decarbonisation targets. Key duties include overseeing and monitoring project activities throughout construction, accurately tracking and reporting on delivery performance, preparing and presenting construction programmes and updates to senior management, forecasting timelines and resource requirements for the delivery phase, and developing enhanced methodologies to optimise project control and predictability.

We are looking for an individual who is proactive, meticulous, and dedicated to advancing the delivery of low-carbon heat networks, furthering the mission to decarbonise heat in cities and towns across the UK.\n\nWhat you’ll do\n\nProgramme Development & Management\n\nDevelop and maintain detailed project schedules using MS Project and MS Planner Integrate multidisciplinary inputs (delivery, finance, sales) into a master programme. Monitor progress, identify risks, and implement recovery actions.\n\nStakeholder Coordination\n\nLiaise with internal teams and external partners (contractors, consultants, local authorities).\n\nFacilitate programme meetings and ensure timely information flow across stakeholders.\n\nPerformance & Reporting\n\nTrack KPIs and programme milestones. Prepare monthly project board reports\n\nLead on data integrity and quality assurance for programme reporting.\n\nGovernance & Compliance\n\nEnsure compliance with heat network regulations.\n\nSupport business planning and controlled document development for heat network delivery.\n\nWhat you’ll need\n\n * Experience in Project Management.\n\n * Project Management certification (e.g., PRINCE2, APM) is desirable\n\n * Proven experience in programme or project planning within infrastructure or energy sectors.\n\n * Strong understanding of district heating systems, energy centres, and low-carbon technologies.\n\n * Demonstrated high level of proficiency in planning software (such as MS Project) and advanced expertise with reporting tools, particularly Excel\n\n * Critical path analysis, and project controls knowledge.\n\n * Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.\n\nAbility to interpret legal and commercial documentation.\n\nAll applicants must be eligible to legally work in the UK

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