Do you want to be part of creating structure, progress, and control in large and complex construction projects?
As a Lead Planner, you have a central role in the project's schedule management. You lead and coordinate the planning work, ensure reliable schedules, and create decision-making materials that help the project carry out the right activities at the right time.
With a structured approach, strong analytical skills, and excellent collaboration abilities, you contribute to ensuring the project's 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:
- Have primary responsibility for the project's schedule management and schedule monitoring, including progress, forecasts, and deviation management
- Lead, coordinate, and quality assure the work on the project's scheduling 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, finances, and contractual obligations
- Identify, analyze, and report time-related risks, opportunities, and consequences for the project's execution
- Prepare clear decision-making and forecast materials for project management, management group, and customer in collaborative projects
- Contribute to the development of working methods, tools, and processes within planning, for example through critical path analyses, alternative scenarios, and progress monitoring
- Support project management on issues related to contract time, change management, and time-related commercial matters.
Your Profile as Lead Planner
We are looking for someone with experience leading and driving planning work in complex environments, preferably in large construction and/or infrastructure projects. You understand how the schedule affects the project's finances, resource planning, procurement, design, and production.
You have strong analytical skills and can translate detailed information into well-founded decisions that support the business's overall objectives. At the same time, you have the ability to see the big picture, identify connections, and foresee the consequences of different choices.
You have a good understanding of production flows and thrive in a role where you can create structure, coordinate different stakeholders, and contribute to keeping the project on the right track throughout execution.
You have excellent communication skills and the ability to engage others in planning work, create alignment between different functions, and convey complex information in a clear and pedagogical manner.
You communicate fluently in Swedish and English, both verbally and in writing.
Experience with Primavera P6 is an advantage.
About Division Building Large Projects
The Division Building Large Projects develops and manages complex construction projects with order values in the range of 1.5 billion or more.
Are you interested in other opportunities? We are recruiting in parallel for the following roles: Project Director, Commercial Director, KMA Manager, Production Manager, and Technical Director. Read more at ncc.se.
NCC Offers
NCC wants to be an attractive employer where employees thrive and develop, which is why 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. You can find additional offerings and discounts through our benefits portal Benify.
Additional Information
The position is a permanent full-time employment. The location is flexible based on the project's requirements. The position requires that you are able to travel on business. For this position, we conduct background checks in accordance with NCC's security culture. The Division may work on security-classified projects, which is why security clearance may be conducted.
Contact and Application
If you want to know more about the position, please contact Tobias Holmqvist, Division Manager, [email protected]. Since the announcement is posted partially over the summer, we ask for your understanding if questions cannot be answered during weeks 28–32. The application deadline is September 6, 2026. We welcome your application!
We wish you a nice 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 construction projects?
As a Lead Planner, you have a central role in the project's schedule management. You lead and coordinate the planning work, ensure reliable schedules, and create decision-making materials that help the project carry out the right activities at the right time.
With a structured approach, strong analytical skills, and excellent collaboration abilities, you contribute to ensuring the project's progress and creating value throughout the execution.
The Lead Planner Role
As a Lead…
Přehled
Typ
job
Stav
active
Viditelnost
public
Město
Umeå
Adresa
Östermalmsgatan 63!
GPS
63.818383858728, 20.292340487463
Email
Telefon
Zobrazení
4
Publikováno
3. 7. 2026
Upraveno
30. 7. 2026
Parametry
Kraj
Västerbottens län
Duration
Tills vidare
Zaměstnavatel
NCC AKTIEBOLAG
Postcode
90335
Počet míst
1
Profese
Affärsområdeschef
Salary Type
Fast månads- vecko- eller timlön
Scope Of Work
100–100 %
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