How to Become a Project Planner in 2026

​HOW TO BECOME A PROJECT PLANNER IN 2026

​CREED Career Mentorship Circle, Series 2
In collaboration with Baseline Integrated Services

​Saturday 29 August 2026, 12:00 to 14:00 (BST)
Online via Zoom

​Behind every delivered project there is someone who built the plan. Not the engineer, not the manager, but the planner: the person who broke the work into pieces, sequenced it, resourced it, set the baseline, and tracked every slippage before it became a crisis.

​Project planning is a profession in its own right, and one of the few that travels across every sector. The same discipline that delivers an offshore platform delivers a hospital wing, a rail upgrade, or a software rollout. It is contract-based, well paid, and consistently in demand, and most people have no idea it exists as a career.

​In this session, Adeola Adesegun, Project Planning Consultant at Baseline Integrated Services, sets out exactly what the role involves and how people move into it, including those coming from engineering, admin, finance, research, and entirely unrelated backgrounds.

​What we will cover

​What a project planner actually does, day to day and week to week
The sectors hiring planners and where the work is in 2026
Day rates, contract versus permanent, and what the market currently pays
The tools that matter: Primavera P6, MS Project, and what employers expect
Where PMP, PRINCE2, APM, and AACE fit, and which are worth your money
How to transition in from another background, and what your first role looks like
Building the experience and evidence that gets you shortlisted

​Who this is for

​Professionals considering a career change into a stable, portable, well-compensated field. Engineers, coordinators, analysts, and administrators who already do parts of this work without the title. Graduates and early-career professionals mapping out a route into project delivery. Anyone in Aberdeen watching the energy sector shift and looking for skills that transfer.

​You will leave knowing what the role demands, what it pays, and the concrete next step for getting into it.

​About the collaboration

​Baseline Integrated Services delivers practical project planning and controls training built around real project execution rather than classroom theory. The CREED Career Mentorship Circle exists to equip our community with the skills, insight, and networks to build meaningful careers.

​Free to attend. Registration required. Zoom link sent on registration.

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