Assistant Planner

Kier Group; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking an Assistant Planner for the HMP Glasgow project in Glasgow. The successful candidate will create planning programmes, monitor progress, and support project teams to ensure timely delivery. Applicants should have a relevant construction qualification, experience in site management or planning, and excellent communication skills. The role offers a competitive salary and a chance to work on a significant £750M new-build project.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits to tailor your needs

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in planning, site management, or engineering with a main contractor.
• Comfort with using planning software.
• Ability to communicate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Creating look ahead programmes and individual trade package programmes.
• Monitoring progress and updating reports.
• Advising on project slippage effects.

Skills

Planning software expertise (Asta Powerproject)

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Education

Relevant construction or engineering qualification (HND or equivalent)

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Assistant Planner – HMP Glasgow Project

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team delivering the HMP Glasgow project.

Location

Glasgow / HMP Glasgow on site

Hours

42.5 Hours P/W - Monday to Friday

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Our HMP Glasgow project will deliver a £750M flagship modern new-build custodial facility, delivering a secure, energy efficient and high specification prison for 2000 inmates and staff based North East of Glasgow City Centre.

Responsibilities

As Assistant Project Planner, you'll be working with an experienced planning team. Your day-to-day will include:

• Creating look ahead programmes, individual trade package programmes.
• Monitoring and updating progress and undertaking regular progress monitoring drop lines.
• Developing ideas to drive improvement and consistency in the timely delivery of our preconstruction preferred bids and live projects.
• Supporting project delivery teams to ensure short-term goals are well communicated and monitored.
• Advising on the effect of any project slippage on existing programmes and updating accordingly.
• Working closely with project teams to assist in the production of accurate progress reports.
• Identifying correct logic for construction sequencing.

Qualifications

• Relevant construction or engineering qualification (HND or equivalent minimum level).
• Comfortable using planning software – Asta Powerproject and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience in planning, site management or engineering with a main contractor delivering construction projects, informing baseline construction knowledge across relevant work packages.
• Excellent communication skills, able to work across teams in an advisory capacity and collaborate across departments.
• Keen eye for detail, highly organised and able to work to deadlines.
• Driving licence.

Rewards and Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and Inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us.

We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Pre-Employment Checks

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre‑employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.