Programme Planner

About You

Do you thrive on bringing clarity and structure to complex, multi programme and multi project environments?

Are you at your best influencing and guiding project and programme managers?

Can you work with agility and pace to create new ways of working that drive positive change for coalfield communities and our environment?

If so, read on:

The Mining Remediation Authority is delivering one of the most ambitious mine water remediation programmes across Great Britain. We're looking for a skilled Programme Planner to shape, coordinate and drive delivery across a diverse and growing portfolio.

This is not a traditional project planning role. You will take a portfolio and programme level perspective, building integrated schedules that bring multiple projects together into a coherent, optimised delivery plan for the mine water portfolio. If you enjoy bringing order to complexity and influencing delivery through expert planning, this is a brilliant opportunity to make impact.

To succeed, you'll be an organised, proactive planner with strong stakeholder skills and the confidence to engage delivery teams and senior leaders alike. You thrive in fast paced, complex environments, balancing multiple priorities while offering clear guidance and constructive challenge.

You'll bring proven experience in programme and project planning, ideally within complex infrastructure settings, and be confident developing and managing integrated, logic linked schedules across portfolios.

Your technical planning capability is solid, from Work Breakdown Structures and baselining to critical path analysis, progress measurement and forecasting.

Fluent in recognised planning tools such as MS Project, Primavera P6 or Project Online/Planner Premium, you'll work seamlessly within established systems and support integrated scheduling and reporting.

You'll also be comfortable operating within governance, assurance, risk and change frameworks, ensuring that planning aligns with organisational requirements and supports informed decision making at every level.

About The Role

As our Programme Planner, you will lead the development, coordination and assurance of planning across the mine water portfolio. Acting as the planning subject matter expert within the Environment Programme Delivery Office, you will:

• Build and maintain robust, integrated schedules across the full portfolio - not just individual projects.
• Provide expert strategic and tactical planning support to programme and project managers.
• Drive effective capacity planning and resource scheduling across programmes and projects.
• Monitor progress against baselines, identifying slippage, risks and opportunities for corrective action, mitigation and informed decision making.
• Deliver high quality planning guidance, coaching and positive challenge to project teams so that projects have proportionate assurance.
• Lead integrated planning sessions that bring delivery teams together to align activity and resolve constraints.

Collaboration is central to this role. You will work closely with colleagues across delivery teams, operations, technical services, business planning functions to ensure planning information is accurate, timely and enables informed decisions.

To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.

We don't expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)

Schedule:

Application closing date: 15 March 2026

Sifting date: Week commencing 16 March 2026

Interviews: Week commencing 23 March 2026

(If you are unavailable on these interview dates, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)

Security:

Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

About Mining Remediation Authority Our benefits:

• A cutting edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
• Experience our values based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
• Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full time, part time, or compressed hours.
• Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
• Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
• Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
• Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
• Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well being.
• Unlock exclusive employee discounts.
• Ensure your well being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well being activities.
• Enjoy the convenience of on site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.

Working with us:

We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.

With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.

Who we are:

Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We're united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.

We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net zero emissions by 2050.

We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

We're proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process.

As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values.

We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers. This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role.

If you're successful in joining us, it's because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution. By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of being trusted, inclusive, and progressive every day.

If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at or call us on . We are happy to support you through the process.