Head of Planning

Kier Group; Wellingborough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Head of Planning for their Natural Resources, Nuclear and Networks team. This pivotal role involves compliance with planning standards and managing contract programmes to enhance business performance, catering to those ready to advance their careers. Candidates should possess strong project management skills, problem-solving abilities, and a strategic mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar planning role or looking to step up.
• Strong project management skills with cross-functional teams.
• Experience providing technical support and training.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the Contract Planning standard.
• Conduct peer reviews of tender and contract programmes.
• Monitor programme performance and identify trends.

Skills

Project Management

Problem-solving

Strategic Thinking

Job description

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We're looking for a Head of Planning to join our Natural Resources, Nuclear and Networks team.

Location: Hybrid working, with national travel required

Hours: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

Responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced Head of Planning to join our NRNN team. In this role you'll be responsible for developing, implementing and ensuring compliance with the Contract Planning standard and have overall management responsibility for contract programmes within the division, ensuring they are robust, can dynamically respond to change and are in line with contract requirements. The Head of Planning is part of Business Excellence team focused on implementing a structured framework and approach to achieving industry leading business performance.

Your day to day will include:

• Responsible for developing, implementing and ensuring compliance with the Contract Planning standard on all appropriate contracts and projects including all associated templates, forms and systems.
• Carry out peer reviews of both tender programmes and contract programmes.
• Attend progress, optioneering, value engineering or risk workshops at project level as required.
• Work closely with the Project Controls team, monitoring programme and planning performance within the division to identify trends, either positive or negative, and develop strategies to either exploit or mitigate these trends, supporting implementation as required.
• Lead the allocation of contract planning resource across the business unit, ensuring that planners have the capacity, capability, and competency.

What are we looking for?

This Head of Planning role is great for you if you have:

• Experience of a similar planning role or ready to make a step up in your career.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a strategic mindset to address complex integration challenges.
• Experience with training users and providing technical support.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be required to complete a Governmen t Security Check (SC) Clearance , which takes place before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre-requisite criteria including residency history. (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 - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit www.kier.co.uk/careers/making-ground ). This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

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