Senior Planner - Construction

Position: Senior Planner

Location: Chelmsford with hybrid working available

Salary Guide: 65-75k (neg DOE), car/allowance, and excellent benefits

Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a number of water infrastructure projects across Essex & Suffolk.

The Role: Directly reporting to the Senior Planning Manager, your responsibility is to assist other members of the project teams to develop, monitor, progress & report on tender & contractual programmes. This includes ensuring that both the operational & commercial members of the team are fully briefed on the critical activities & risks of their projects at all times.

You will be required to work closely with the commercial department to monitor costs, take ownership of several project plans, drive the project team to deliver to the plan & challenge any delay & deviation. Lead, coach & guide Junior Planners, you'll be viewed as an approachable planning expert who is keen to pass on experience & knowledge to develop others & drive performance improvement.

Responsibilities: Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation, ensuring that they are compliant & realistic.

Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them & submit them for acceptance as contractually required.

Assist with the delivery of collaborative planning workshops.

Lead the development of construction phase 4D planning.

Maintain a baseline programme & measure progress against it.

Liaise with project teams to ensure consistency of key assumptions on methodology & outputs.

Identify opportunity & key risks during the planning process.

Gather, collate & distribute progress information & the reasons for deviations/delays.

Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly.

Attend progress/project meetings & present programmes for review.

Attend site meetings to gather progress information.

Report programme issues to the Senior Planning Manager & site management teams.

Distribute regular look ahead programmes.

Ensure an as-built programme is available at project closedown.

Maintain knowledge of site processes & costs.

Record the effects of changes on site & the effects on the contract programme.

Assist with the monthly progress report in line with customer requirements.

Build & maintain relationships with the Senior Planning Manager, Project Manager, commercial team & client representatives.

Assist with the administration of Primavera P6 planning software.

Deliver planning software training to new users when required.

Experience:

Essential: Experience in planning of civil, M&E projects

Main contractor experience

Knowledge of current HSE practices & CSCS card holder

Experience of working with NEC3/4 contracts

Competent in the use of Microsoft software & applications

Proficient in use of Primavera P6 planning software

Excellent communication skills

Ability to identify risks & opportunities

Able to work in a fast-paced environment

Comfortable working to tight deadlines

Able to focus on deliverables

A proactive attitude

Ability to identify & solve problems

Able to manage own workload to meet deadlines

Desirable: Water Industry experience

Site based engineering background

Professional qualification

Current Water Hygiene card holder

Familiar with contract management software such as CEMAR & Aconnex

Package includes: A competitive salary

Car/car allowance (subject to role and level of position)

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)

Contribution Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private medical Insurance

And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc

Key Words:

Planning Engineer

Planner

Project Planner

Senior Planner

Senior Planning Engineer

Senior Project Planner

Construction

Project Programmes

P6 Programmes

Project Delivery

Project Plans

Water Industry

Water Sector

Water Treatment

Clean Water

Sewage

Wastewater

Waste Water

Utilities

Highways

Power

Energy

Nuclear

Energy from Waste

Rail

Infrastructure

Primavera

P6

Anglian Water

Thames Water

South East Water

Veolia

AMP 7

AMP 8

NEC