Planner / Planning Engineer

We are currently seeking a Planner / Planning Engineer to work for a major civil engineering contractor on a multi million pound civil infrastructure scheme in the Eastern region

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established, award winning contractor, with continuous success over a number of years with a solid order book, to work on multi discipline civil schemes

The ideal candidate should fit the below criteria:

• Main contract experience
• Progressed from an engineering background (Site Engineer, Section Engineer, Agent etc)
• Solid understanding of ASTA, P6, MS planning software
• experience working on civil related projects
• At least three years planning experience, with a further number of years experience on site
• Progressed from and Engineering background

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Support the successful delivery of fully logically linked programmes that comply with the planning standard and client requirements.
• Provide input into project risk registers.
• Develop design and build programmes with detailed WBS structures and fully coded activities to support both Amco and Client progress reporting.
• Develop and maintain excellent communication relationships with internal and external customers to gather progress information for project /programme updates.
• Continuously monitor programmes to ensure they are updated to accurately reflect progress and reflect the revised forecast of the works and compare to baseline
• Provide regular feedback and reports on the status of the projects to the project delivery team.
• Provide sufficient detail on materials and plant to ensure the procurement teams have early visibility of the project requirements.
• Provide sufficient resource information to ensure any recruitment requirements are identified in a suitable timescale.
• Ensure the programme covers all the contractual key milestones.
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the planning and delivery teams to support successful project delivery.
• Act as an ambassador for the company with suppliers, stakeholders, customers and the public.
• Support the successful delivery of the business lifesaving rules.