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Senior Planner - Life Sciences Construction

1/11/2026

The Senior Planner will build project schedules, ensuring clear responsibility for project outcomes and adherence to execution plans. They will manage the integrated project schedule and provide regular updates on progress.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Linesight provides professional consultancy services, management support and strategic advice to the global construction industry. From initial concept to project completion, we have been helping clients to build their businesses since 1974. We have developed long-lasting relationships with some of the biggest companies in the world and have earned a reputation as a world leader in our field, and are continually evolving our offer to best meet our clients'​ needs. We have deep domain knowledge and experience spanning a multitude of sectors including Commercial, Data Centers, Life Sciences, Healthcare, High-Tech Industrial, Hospitality, Education, Residential, Retail, Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Oil & Gas. With staff located across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the USA, our reach is truly global. Our permanent and long-established presence in these areas allows us to develop strategic partnerships, access local resources, formulate the most up-to-date market insights, and gain deep knowledge of each territory. Visit our Insights section, which provides global and regional analysis for the construction industry: http://www.linesight.com/insights
About the Role

Overview

As a Senior Planner - Life Sciences at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:​

  • Build project schedules encompassing full project scope, milestones and timelines, using critical plan methodology​
  • Ensure clear responsibility and ownership for all project outcomes is defined via Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) methodology​
  • Ensure schedule adheres to the project execution plan and in particular contracting, procurement and project control strategy documents and plans​
  • Ensure there is a clear method in place for baselining of schedules and manage periodic updates​
  • Manage the fully integrated project schedule and structure it to allow review at a range of levels and details​
  • Negotiate and mediate timelines and project interdependencies between key partners for a great client outcome​
  • Provide regular updates on schedule progress​
  • Review external schedules to ensure that they are compiled using scheduling best practices​

We would love to hear from you if you:​

  • Have grown your planning and scheduling skills​
  • Have demonstrated quantitative risk assessment (QRA) experience, and expertly interpret and communicate findings to key partners​
  • Have working experience using Primavera P6 planning software to build your schedule​
  • Have a degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction​​
  • Are detail oriented and quality focused​
  • Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!  

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility 

  

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you! 

Key Skills
PlanningSchedulingQuantitative Risk AssessmentPrimavera P6Project ManagementConstructionDetail OrientedQuality FocusedDynamic EnvironmentNegotiationCommunicationProject ControlWork Breakdown StructureSchedule ManagementClient Relations
Categories
ConstructionManagement & LeadershipEngineeringScience & ResearchConsulting
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