Assistant Construction Planner: Scheduling & Analysis

Caddick Construction Limited; North East; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday Day Off

Annual Leave Purchase Scheme

Private Healthcare

Pension

Job summary

Caddick Construction Limited is seeking an Assistant Planner to join our North East team on a range of exciting projects. You will support development, maintenance, and monitoring of construction programmes across pre-construction and live projects.

The role offers opportunities to work with cross-functional teams, develop planning skills, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean Construction and buildability analyses.

Qualifications

• Basic understanding of construction processes, buildability, or site operations.
• Awareness of planning principles such as logic linking, critical path, and programme structure.
• Competent in MS Office tools, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, maintenance, and monitoring of construction programmes across pre-construction and live projects.
• Assist in producing logic-linked and integrated programmes covering design, procurement, approvals, and construction activities.
• Gather and analyse project progress data, contributing to accurate planned vs actual tracking.
• Support logistics planning, sequencing, and collaborative planning sessions with project teams.
• Assist with programme controls, documentation, compliance checks, and planning audits.

Skills

Construction planning

Planning principles

MS Office

BIM/4D visualization

Project controls exposure

Tools

BIM

Job description

Caddick Construction Limited is seeking an Assistant Planner to join our North East team on a range of exciting projects. You will support development, maintenance, and monitoring of construction programmes across pre-construction and live projects.

The role offers opportunities to work with cross-functional teams, develop planning skills, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, including Lean Construction and buildability analyses.