Senior Planner

Position: Senior Planner

Job type: Permanent

Location: Ipswich, Suffolk

Start date: ASAP

Package: Up to £75,000 salary (doe), plus car allowance and benefits package

The company

A Top 100 main contractor with a successful history operating across Suffolk and Essex is seeking a Senior Planner to join its pre-construction team to lead on strengthening their pipeline and tenders.

Specialists in building multiple sectors, including education, commercial, healthcare, industrial, defence, retail and leisure up to £30m. 

The role

Reporting to the pre-construction director, this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced planner, or a project manager / contracts manager looking to move into pre-construction and play a key role in strengthening and securing tenders.

You will:

• Lead the development and undertaking of the tender planning / programming activity within the pre-construction team
• Enhance our ability to secure works and to establish project controls and internal reporting from the tender stage.
• Ensure tender stage project delivery programmes are fully developed and contractually compliant.
• Produce programmes which are optimised in terms of resources and risk and opportunity, to ensure we submit our best value and optimised tender.

The role will involve close liaison with preconstruction & project teams, plus occasional liaison with our client and supply chain as necessary.

Desirable Experience

• Appropriate industry qualification, e.g. Degree or HND.
• Industry background and experience working on a like for like portfolio of projects, with demonstrable experience in a preconstruction/tendering team.
• Appropriate IT skills including the use of company software packages. (ASTA Powerproject)
• Understanding of the requirements on NEC3 / 4 Contracts and the importance of programme to management of the project, including timescales for action.

Application Process

If you would like more information on this position or any other vacancy, please apply with your CV where it will be reviewed, and you will be contacted within 48 hours if your CV is of interest.

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