Construction Planner

Berkeley Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Online discount platform

Berkeley Foundation volunteer day

Private pension

Group life assurance

Job summary

The Berkeley Group in London is seeking a Construction Planner to support the project team with developing and maintaining achievable schedules. You will coordinate with the Production Team to align the plan, flag risks, and forecast future milestones.

Join a collaborative, long-term brownfield regeneration specialist and contribute to high-quality, sustainable places. The role offers progression opportunities and a focus on delivering value for stakeholders across commercial and build teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction planning and scheduling.
• Ability to read construction drawings.
• Understanding of sequence and logic in build projects.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and Excel formulas.

Responsibilities

• Develop and regularly review the project programme with senior leadership.
• Walk the site as an independent progress monitor and provide droplines.
• Produce weekly and monthly progress reports with status against master programmes.
• Collate information from key project programmes for Commercial, Build and Technical teams.
• Lead collaborative meetings to progress and report on events through preconstruction activities.
• Collaborate on resolutions to programme and logistical challenges with production teams.
• Engage with the supply chain for subcontractor programme analysis during tender and in contract.

Skills

Construction build knowledge

Read construction drawings

Sequence and logic understanding

Microsoft Excel proficiency

Tools

Asta Power Project

Microsoft 365 Excel

Job description

Construction Planner

Department: Commercial

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Battersea, London

Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.

We specialise in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.

Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.

What you’ll be doing

The Construction Project Planner supports the project team in developing and maintaining an achievable project plan. Coordinating with the Production Team to make sure all parts of the plan align, highlighting any risk and opportunities ahead of time to enable the project to achieve its goal. The Planner will also monitor and report on the current project status and future forecast.

This is an exciting role, which provides an opportunity for someone who is highly collaborative, self-motivated and with a desire to learn and progress their career whilst making a significant contribution to a crucial part of the business.

• Collaborate with the senior leadership team to develop and regularly review the project programme.
• Walk the site, providing an independent monitor of progress and evidence-based droplines.
• Produce weekly and monthly progress reports, providing project leads and senior management with status against master and project level programmes, including the use of Critical Path Analysis to support flagging concerns.
• Collating information from key project programmes for the Commercial, Build and Technical teams.
• Lead collaborative meetings to progress and report on events through preconstruction activities.
• Collaborate with Project teams on resolutions to programme / logistical challenges, assisting. production teams with creating ‘What ifs’ and short-term programmes to visualise and establish options.
• Engage with the supply chain, assisting the Project team with subcontractor programme analysis and monitoring, both through tender phase and whilst in contract.

What you’ll bring

• Construction build knowledge and experience.
• Ability to read construction drawings.
• Demonstratable understanding of sequence and logic.
• Microsoft 365 (Good understanding of Excel- formulas, graphs).
• Asta Power Project or similar.

Why join us?

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
• Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
• Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
• Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
• Private pension plan.
• Group life assurance.

The standard default full-time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.