Abbey Ajayi

Senior Project Planner with 8+ years of experience across construction, infrastructure, energy, water, healthcare, data centre, and complex building projects. Skilled in developing baseline and target programmes covering design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, with strong focus on logic-linked schedules, critical path management, progress monitoring, risk mitigation, and structured reporting. Experienced in preconstruction planning, tender programmes, subcontractor coordination, NEC contract environments, delay analysis, programme governance, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.

Confident working with operational, commercial, engineering, client, supplier, and subcontractor teams to improve programme certainty, protect contractual milestones, and support safe, efficient delivery. Brings strong transferable experience for a Senior Project Planner role on a major high-rise residential scheme, with proven capability across major project environments and multidisciplinary delivery interfaces.

Portfolio Programme Planner - Elgin Energy - London, UK

(2024-08)

Lead planning and project controls across Elgin Energy's UK and European utility-scale solar and storage portfolio, building integrated programmes across preconstruction, design, procurement, construction, energisation, commissioning, and COD.

• Develop and maintain Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project schedules to support investment decisions, pre-FID planning, Financial Close, Notice to Proceed, construction readiness, energisation, and handover milestones.
• Produce and manage integrated master schedules combining EPC, ICP, engineering, procurement, commercial, legal, grid, and construction workstreams, ensuring logic links, clear dependencies, and visible critical path drivers.
• Review contractor programmes for logic quality, milestone alignment, open ends, constraints, sequencing, calendar use, float realism, and interface risk, then provide structured findings to project and senior management teams.
• Prepare programme narratives and progress updates that explain critical path movement, delay drivers, delivery assumptions, risks, opportunities, and required decisions in a clear format for senior stakeholders.
• Support construction readiness by modelling design close-out, procurement lead-ins, contractor mobilisation, access constraints, permitting, logistics interfaces, and key execution milestones.
• Collaborate with project managers, commercial leads, engineering teams, external contractors, and senior leadership to ensure schedules reflect current scope, contract requirements, procurement assumptions, and delivery priorities.
• Develop Power BI dashboards, Excel/Power Query trackers, and SharePoint-based reporting workflows to improve visibility of milestone performance, earned value, cost-loaded progress, risks, and project status.
• Maintain programme documentation and reporting inputs within SharePoint-based project environments, improving version control, accessibility, governance, and auditability of planning information.
• Contribute to programme standards and schedule governance across preconstruction and delivery phases, including schedule integrity checks, reporting templates, and contractor submission requirements.

Project Planner - Gutteridge Haskins & Davey (GHD) - London, UK

(2022-08 - 2024-07)

Developed and maintained programmes for multidisciplinary infrastructure, water, energy, healthcare, data centre, and complex design projects with values up to £36m, supporting clients including Thames Water, Severn Trent, Galliford Try, Kier Construction, CMDP, and other major delivery partners.

• Built project schedules from early design through completion, covering design deliverables, procurement dependencies, construction interfaces, commissioning requirements, handover milestones, and client review periods.
• Prepared tender and delivery programmes that supported subcontract procurement, client submissions, design release planning, lead-in activities, and commercial review across major infrastructure and building-related opportunities.
• Supported planning for Severn Trent water design projects, coordinating design deliverables, engineering dependencies, programme milestones, progress updates, and stakeholder inputs across design-led delivery teams.
• Applied Critical Path Method and Earned Value Management to monitor programme performance, identify variance, test schedule logic, and support corrective action across live and tender-stage projects.
• Used NEC contract principles to support compensation events, change control, delay analysis, programme entitlement, and commercial decision-making, strengthening project controls discipline and contractual traceability.
• Produced delay analysis and programme narratives for a major hospital design project in Dubai, supporting compensation event submissions that contributed to a project budget movement from £7m to £10.2m.
• Supported a data centre project tender by developing a credible programme aligned with client requirements, delivery milestones, design information, procurement assumptions, and project deliverables.
• Worked closely with project managers, project directors, engineers, commercial teams, client representatives, and supply chain stakeholders to validate durations, dependencies, scope assumptions, and programme constraints.
• Identified risks, delays, opportunities, and planning gaps through critical path reviews, milestone tracking, float analysis, stakeholder engagement, and schedule assurance checks.

Project Planner - Alexjay and Company Ltd - London, UK

(2019-12 - 2022-07)

Planned and coordinated construction projects with values up to £20m for Qatar Building Company and private-sector clients, supporting feasibility, design coordination, procurement, construction, and handover phases.

• Developed Work Breakdown Structures, sequencing logic, baseline plans, and project programmes to improve visibility of scope, delivery responsibilities, milestones, and critical interfaces.
• Coordinated with planning managers, project managers, consultants, and delivery teams to maintain accurate programmes aligned with client requirements, site priorities, and project delivery standards.
• Monitored project progress through audits, programme updates, delay reviews, change tracking, and reprogramming strategies to support timely and high-quality handover.
• Supported procurement and resource planning by aligning supplier inputs, delivery requirements, logistics constraints, and programme milestones with project objectives.
• Served as a key contact for early client enquiries, project scoping, commercial discussions, and programme-led input during bid and preconstruction stages.

Assistant Programme Planner / Project Coordinator - David Sinclair Ltd - London, UK

(2014-10 - 2019-08)

Supported senior planners and project managers with preconstruction and construction phase planning, schedule updates, resource planning, design information tracking, and delivery coordination.

• Assisted with critical path analysis, earned value management reports, programme performance reviews, risks and issues reporting, and critical resource analysis.
• Reviewed construction programmes and design information to identify missing dependencies, sequencing gaps, delivery risks, and areas requiring project team action.
• Supported client meetings, prequalification questionnaires, proposal development, project reporting, and stakeholder coordination across construction-related projects.
• Maintained progress records and planning documentation to support programme governance, reporting accuracy, and project handover activities.

Stock Controller - Grosvenor Services - London, UK

(2010-02 - 2012-06)

Managed stock control, procurement coordination, inventory records, and logistics support, improving resource availability and operational efficiency.

Planning and Logistics Operations Manager - Castle Pillar Nigeria Ltd - Lagos, Nigeria

(2006-06 - 2010-01)

Managed daily logistics planning for a fleet of 55