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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
