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Position: Senior Planner
Location: Oswestry, Shropshire with hybrid working available
Salary Guide: £55-65k (neg DOE) plus car/allowance and excellent benefits
Our Client: Is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, which is delivering a significant proportion of United Utilities programme of clean and wastewater non-infrastructure projects throughout the Northwest.
The Role: Our client is looking to strengthen their planning team with a Senior Planner for the UU region, initially at Oswestry. You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated.
Reporting directly to the Senior Planning Manager, your responsibility is to monitor, progress & report on 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.
Future roles will include development of tender programmes through feasibility and into execution in the AMP8 portfolio.
You will 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. Leading, coaching & guiding junior planners.
Responsibilities: Monitor progress on site with regular site walks.
Lead in the delivery of collaborative planning workshops as required.
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 opportunities & key risks during the planning process
Gather, collate & distribute progress information & the reasons for deviations/delays
Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly.
Develop Cause & Effect entitlement programmes for CEs
Attend progress/project meetings & present programmes for review.
Attend site meetings to gather progress information
Report programme issues to the site management team and Senior Planning Manager
Distribute regular look ahead programmes
Ensure an As Built programme is available at project closedown
Maintain knowledge of site processes
Record the effects of changes on site & the effects on the contract programme
Assist with the monthly progress report in line with company & 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 various planning software training to new users when required
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
Experience: Essential:
Experience in planning of civil, M&E projects
Knowledge of current HSE practices & CSCS card holder
Experience of working with NEC3/4 contracts
Competent in the use of Microsoft software & application
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
Desirable:
Water/wastewater Industry experience
Site based engineering background
Professional qualification
Current Water Hygiene card holder (training available)
Familiar with contract management software such as CEMAR
NEC3 /4 contractual experience.
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.
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