Do you want to be part of creating structure, progress, and control in large and complex building projects?
As a Lead Planner, you have a central role in project scheduling. You lead and coordinate planning work, ensure reliable schedules, and create decision-making materials that help the project execute the right activities at the right time.
With a structured approach, strong analytical skills, and excellent collaboration abilities, you contribute to ensuring project progress and creating value throughout the execution.
The Lead Planner Role
As a Lead Planner, you lead and quality-assure the project's planning process. You are responsible for establishing, developing, monitoring, and using schedules as an active management tool throughout the project's various phases. The role involves close collaboration with other key functions within the project.
Your responsibilities include:
lead responsibility for project schedule management and monitoring, including progress, forecasts, and deviation management
lead, coordinate, and quality-assure the project's schedule planning work in collaboration with project planners and other key functions
ensure that schedules are created and structured according to the project's common working methods, WBS, and NCC's processes
analyze relationships between time, production, procurement, design, economics, and contractual obligations
identify, analyze, and report time-related risks, opportunities, and consequences for project execution
develop clear decision-making and forecast materials for project management, steering group, and customers in collaborative projects
contribute to developing working methods, tools, and processes within planning, for example through critical path analysis, alternative scenarios, and progress monitoring
support project management on matters related to contract time, change management, and time-related commercial issues.
Your Profile as a Lead Planner
We are looking for someone with experience leading and driving planning work in complex environments, preferably in large building and/or infrastructure projects. You understand how the schedule impacts the project's economy, resource planning, procurement, design, and production.
You have strong analytical skills and can translate detailed information into well-founded decisions that support business objectives. At the same time, you have the ability to see the bigger picture, identify connections, and foresee consequences of different approaches.
You have a good understanding of production flows and thrive in a role where you can create structure, coordinate different stakeholders, and help keep the project on track throughout its execution.
You have excellent communication and engagement skills, can create consensus among different functions, and convey complex information clearly and educationally.
You communicate fluently in Swedish and English, both verbally and in writing.
Experience with Primavera P6 is a merit.
About Division Building Large Projects
The Division Building Large Projects develops and manages complex building projects with contract values in the range of 1.5 billion or more.
Interested in other opportunities? We are recruiting in parallel for the following roles: Project Director, Commercial Manager, KMA Manager, Production Manager, and Technical Manager. Read more at ncc.se.
NCC Offers
NCC wants to be an attractive employer where employees thrive and develop, so we offer you a wide range of employee benefits and internal training. NCC has collective agreements for all employees, which gives you good basic security and a clear set of rules so you know what applies to your employment. We also offer insurance, reduced working hours, wellness allowance, and meal benefits. Additional offers and discounts can be found on our benefits portal Benify.
Additional Information
This is a permanent full-time position. The work location is flexible based on project conditions. The position requires you to be available for business travel. For this position, we conduct background checks in accordance with NCC's security culture. The Division may work on classified projects, which means security clearance may be required.
Contact and Application
If you want to know more about this position, please contact Tobias Holmqvist, Division Manager, [email protected]. Since the position is posted partly during vacation, we ask for your understanding that some questions may not be answered during weeks 28–32. The application deadline is September 6, 2026. We look forward to your application!
We wish you a great summer!
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NCC - one of the leading companies in the Nordic regionDo you want to be part of creating structure, progress, and control in large and complex building projects?
As a Lead Planner, you have a central role in project scheduling. You lead and coordinate planning work, ensure reliable schedules, and create decision-making materials that help the project execute the right activities at the right time.
With a structured approach, strong analytical skills, and excellent collaboration abilities, you contribute to ensuring project progress and creating value throughout the execution.
The Lead Planner Role
As a Lead Planner, you lead and…