My client is a Leading, Tier 1 Civil Engineering Contractor.
Due to an internal promotion and planned and continued growth they are looking to appoint, on a permanent basis a Senior Planner to work on a wide variety of Heavy Civil Engineering Projects which could be in any of the following sectors; Energy, Rail, Motorways, Wind Farms, Flood schemes, Ports & Marine, Substations and much more.
About the job:
The Senior Planner will assimilate the tender documents and produce a plan to deliver the project and communicate the plan to the Bid team. They will develop and produce a tender programme to comply with the Contract and Works Information, and to reflect the most efficient and effective sequence to deliver a project, or section of works.
The Senior Planner will be responsible for liaising with the Estimating team and assisting with the preparation of Preliminary Items; method related items; reconciliation of labour, plant and equipment. They will also assist our bid team with the presentation of the plan and programme at internal governance meetings.
This is a hybrid position, so therefore two days of home working are permitted.
Duties:
Ensure that all activities are planned with time allocated for HSE needs such as documentation and approvals, training, competency checks etc.
Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction. This is likely to include stage diagrams to explain the proposed sequence.
Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.
Be aware of the bid win strategy and contribute to the strategy with innovation options.
Communicate the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan to the project team utilising visual aids (e.g. stage diagrams; sequence diagrams etc.) to suit.
Liaise with the Estimating and temporary works departments to ensure allowance is made in Preliminaries and the programme for temporary works.
Challenge and verify suppliers and sub-contractors programme and methodology
Determine the requirements for Site set-up and independently prepare phasing, logistics and timeslices along with associated methodology/narratives as required by the tender deliverables
Person Specification
Degree qualified within an engineering discipline or equivalent
Extensive experience in planning on civil engineering or building projects, either office or site based.
Advanced use of specialist software e.g. Primavera P6, CAD, PowerPoint , 4Projects etc.
Professional Membership: ICE or APM Membership is desirable
Benefits:
Competitive basic salary
Company car or car allowance
Company Pension Scheme
Private Healthcare
Holidays to include all Bank Holidays
Training and progression
Hybrid working