Senior Planner

Senior Planner - London

Location: London (South East London)
Employment Type: Full-time

Salary: Competetive

I m partnering with a highly successful, fast-growing organisation with an impressive £200m+ annual turnover to support their search for top talent. This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established, industry-leading business that combines strong commercial performance with a forward-thinking, people-focused culture. If you re looking to take the next step in your career within a company that offers stability, progression, and the chance to make a real impact,

JOB DESCRIPTION: SENIOR PLANNER

Duties & Responsibilities:

Pre-Construction

• Review and comment on client programme
• Review team programme to include:
  • Confirmation of logic / sequence
  • Crane usage
  • Labour resourcing
  • Cashflow
  • Critical path analysis
  • Identify float within overall programme
• Review TES
• Review design programme
• Sign off and approve programme suite

• Review and comment on client stated programme duration, phasing and sequencing
• Input / advice on sequence and durations, inc. hook / cycle times programme produced and owned by PM
• Ensure that logic works and critical path is present and understood
• Ensure float is identified and we are presented with a true nett programme at tender settlement
• Sign off construction and design programmes ahead of tender settlement

NOTE: Production and ownership of programmes remains the responsibility of the Project Manager / Operations Director

Operational

• Review team dropline on programme
  • Dropline
  • Critical path analysis
  • Resource levels
  • Forecast impact
• Audit of project programme reporting to include
  • TES
  • Design Program
  • Offsite manufacture and works
  • Construction works
• Support teams with
  • Preparation of sub-contractor contract programmes for procurement / orders
  • Impact of change
  • Sequence review to mitigate delays / changes

Commercial / Contract

• Review and support in
  • Development of as built programme
  • Sub-contractor claims and EOT applications
• EOT
  • Prepare EOT programme for issue to Client teams

Reporting

• Prepare monthly summary programme to include
  • Project position and performance against contract programme
  • Difference between audit position and team position
  • Trend analysis
  • Key package performance and issues
  • Resource review planned -v- actual
• Monthly programme audit for each live contract. To be coordinated with CVR dates
• To include:
  • Construction current position and forecast
  • Design with input from Design Director / Design Manager / Tech Servs Dir.
  • Sub-Contract Design and Installation programmes with input from Des Dir. / Tech Servs. Dir.
• Advise on programme impacts for change control, including alternative programme proposals / solutions. advice to client before / after change
• Advise Ops Dir / PM on programme for EOT process
• Advise / comment on key supply chain programmes, as required, ahead of placement of key orders (Facades, MEP, Structural Steelwork, Sub-structures and so on)

Reporting

Produce summary reports for monthly board meeting on programme performance for each live contract including short / long term forecast

Process

Develop and agree appropriate processes and procedures with Operational Board to standardise across business:

1. Programme templates / borders
2. Programme Resources / calendars etc. to be used
3. Reporting formats
4. Appropriate levels of programme governance