Project Planner​/Scheduler

Location:
Bristol (Long Ashton) - Hybrid (minimum 3 days per week onsite)

Salary:
Competitive + Benefits

ARCA Resourcing is supporting a fast-paced world‑leading engineering organisation specialising in advanced motion simulator technology in the search for a Planner/ Scheduler.

This role sits at the heart of project delivery, ensuring complex simulator programmes are accurately scheduled, tracked, and coordinated across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and integration teams.

As a Planner/ Scheduler, you’ll develop and maintain detailed project schedules, coordinate dependencies across disciplines, and provide accurate progress updates to Project Managers and Technical Leads. You’ll help ensure projects stay on track and support both internal and customer‑facing reviews in a fast‑paced environment.

• Building and maintaining multi‑phase project schedules across design, procurement, assembly, integration, and testing
• Updating plans with progress data and forecasting schedule impacts
• Tracking milestones and highlighting risks or deviations early
• Leading regular schedule reviews and producing progress reports/dashboards
• Coordinating with technical teams to verify task status
• Supporting bid schedules and baseline updates for contract changes
• Ensuring schedule data integrity and contributing to planning process improvements

• Experience in project planning or scheduling within engineering or technical environments
• Strong understanding of dependencies, critical paths, and schedule control
• Confident communicator able to work closely with multidisciplinary teams
• Detail‑oriented, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple work streams

Experience with planning tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera) and previous work in engineering/manufacturing sectors.

• Involvement in innovative, high-performance simulator programmes
• Collaboration with expert engineering teams across multiple disciplines
• The chance to influence planning processes and support continuous improvement
• A dynamic and supportive environment with strong opportunities for growth

If you’re a motivated planner who enjoys bringing structure and clarity to complex engineering programmes, we’d love to hear from you.