Associate Director/ Directors - Planning Managers/ Senior Planners

HKA is a leading global consultancy in risk mitigation, dispute resolution, expert witness and litigation support. We anticipate, investigate and resolve complex challenges by harnessing world-leading multi-disciplinary expertise and experience.

As trusted independent consultants, experts and advisors, we deliver solutions amid uncertainty, dispute and overrun, and provide the insights that make the best possible outcomes a reality for public and private sector clients worldwide. Our experts have testified across the globe on many of the largest quantum, delay, engineering and commercial damages matters.

At HKA You Can Expect

• The opportunity to contribute to the delivery of high-impact planning and programme advisory services, supporting a major, complex project within a collaborative consultancy environment.
• A genuinely integrated culture contributing to a multi-disciplinary approach to project and commercial challenges.
• A platform to transition or further develop within consultancy, applying your planning expertise in a more analytical, insight-led environment, with exposure to advisory and disputes work.
• The opportunity to play a critical role in project outcomes through programme analysis, performance insight, and risk identification, supporting both delivery teams and wider commercial decision-making.
• A role that recognises your technical planning expertise, supports continuous development, and offers the chance to broaden your experience within HKA’s wider advisory and disputes offering.
  
  

The Opportunity

You will be embedded within a large, collaborative HKA team, supporting a major project through the provision of planning, programme analysis, and technical support.

Working closely with both delivery-focused professionals, disputes and advisory specialists, you will help ensure that project programmes are robust, well understood, and capable of supporting both operational and commercial objectives.

Role And Responsibilities

• Reviewing and assessing project programmes, identifying issues, risks, and opportunities for improvement
• Delivering programme analysis, including critical path review, progress assessment, and performance evaluation
• Providing insight-led recommendations to support improved planning outcomes and project performance
• Supporting forward-looking programme assessment and scenario planning to inform key decisions
• Contributing to claims, variations, or issue evaluation where planning input is required
• Producing clear, structured outputs and reports tailored to a range of stakeholders
• Collaborating closely with disputes and advisory teams, ensuring planning outputs align with broader commercial and analytical objectives
  
  

Skills And Experience

We’re looking for a technically strong and commercially aware planning professionals who bring:

• A degree in engineering, construction management, project management or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
• Proven experience as a Senior Planner or Project Planning Manager on major construction, engineering, or infrastructure projects
• Strong expertise in planning and scheduling tools (e.g. Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject, MS Project)
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex programmes and identify key risks, delays, and performance drivers
• Experience in progress monitoring, reporting, and programme analysis
• Exposure to claims, variations, or programme-based assessments
• An interest in working within a consultancy, advisory, or disputes-aligned environment
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present clear, structured insights to a range of stakeholders
  
  

Why HKA?

Joining HKA provides an opportunity to apply your planning expertise within a leading consultancy environment, working as part of a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team supporting complex, high-value projects.

You’ll be part of a globally recognised consultancy known for its strength in planning, project controls, and dispute resolution, where your work will contribute to both project delivery and broader advisory outcomes.

If you’re a strong planner looking to broaden your experience, work alongside disputes specialists, and move into a more analytical, consultancy-driven role, we’d love to hear from you.

What We Offer

At HKA we recognise that our people are critical to our ongoing success. Our priority is to provide an inclusive and collaborative culture aimed at providing the best opportunities for our people to thrive and develop in their chosen career path.

Our Global Recruitment team is committed to providing an authentic candidate experience for all those who take the time to apply to HKA. We are committed to providing an efficient and insightful recruitment process giving candidates a true reflection of life at HKA. We are committed to responding to all applicants who apply by the closing date.

ED&I At HKA

HKA has a thriving ED&I committee working hard to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment for a truly diverse set of employees. We are committed as a business on the continued improvement of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy, please visit our careers page for further information or feel free to ask our recruitment team for further information.

All HKA employment decisions are firstly made on merit and shall be made without regard to age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, or any other basis in compliance with local legislation.

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HKA is one of the world’s leading consultancy of choice for multi-disciplinary expert and specialist services in risk mitigation and dispute resolution within the capital projects and infrastructure sector.

We also have experience advising clients on the economic impact of commercial and investment treaty disputes and in forensic accounting matters.

As trusted independent consultants, experts and advisors, we deliver solutions amid uncertainty, dispute and overrun, and provide the insights that make the best possible outcomes a reality for public and private sector clients worldwide.