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
