Planning Manager
| Posting date: | 03 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £45,000 to £55,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 January 2026 |
| Location: | Bicester, Home Counties, OX25 1AH |
| Company: | M Group Services |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 58634848 |
Summary
About The Role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As our Planning Manager you’ll be responsible for planning, coordinating and keeping delivery on track for our mains replacement programmes.
- Making sure work is properly programmed and mobilised to site on time.
- Working with highway authorities to agree road space and permit conditions.
- Agreeing construction programmes and sequencing with our subcontractors.
- Planning resources for both short term (weekly/monthly) and longer term requirements.
- Ensuring all scheme requirements are in place, including traffic management, permits, traffic orders and parking bay suspensions.
- Working closely with the ECI team and providing input into pricing submissions.
- Acting as custodian for the programme across all allocated projects, keeping it up to date and a true reflection of current and future work.
- Producing forecasts and reports as required under the contract.
- Attending programme review meetings to update progress, highlight concerns and challenge productivity where needed.
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience in mobilisation and delivery of mains replacement or similar utility construction projects.
- Confidence managing several schemes in different locations at the same time.
- Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to manage and challenge subcontractors, suppliers and clients.
- Solid experience maintaining accurate programmes in Microsoft Project.
- The ability to work across different time horizons:
- Short term (next week, next month)
- Medium term (next six months)
- Long term (the coming year and remainder of the contract)
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care for you plus health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Personal Accident Cover
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
#MGroupW
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As our Planning Manager you’ll be responsible for planning, coordinating and keeping delivery on track for our mains replacement programmes.
- Making sure work is properly programmed and mobilised to site on time.
- Working with highway authorities to agree road space and permit conditions.
- Agreeing construction programmes and sequencing with our subcontractors.
- Planning resources for both short term (weekly/monthly) and longer term requirements.
- Ensuring all scheme requirements are in place, including traffic management, permits, traffic orders and parking bay suspensions.
- Working closely with the ECI team and providing input into pricing submissions.
- Acting as custodian for the programme across all allocated projects, keeping it up to date and a true reflection of current and future work.
- Producing forecasts and reports as required under the contract.
- Attending programme review meetings to update progress, highlight concerns and challenge productivity where needed.
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience in mobilisation and delivery of mains replacement or similar utility construction projects.
- Confidence managing several schemes in different locations at the same time.
- Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to manage and challenge subcontractors, suppliers and clients.
- Solid experience maintaining accurate programmes in Microsoft Project.
- The ability to work across different time horizons:
- Short term (next week, next month)
- Medium term (next six months)
- Long term (the coming year and remainder of the contract)
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care for you plus health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Personal Accident Cover
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
#MGroupW