Planner

Kier Group; Chalfont St. Peter; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Planner to join their Natural Resources team, focusing on water asset management programmes in the Thames Valley region. The successful candidate will manage planning tasks and oversee a planning team, requiring experience in NEC/IChemE contract-based planning and competence in Primavera P6. This permanent, full-time role offers flexible working arrangements with opportunities to be involved in significant non-infrastructure projects.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits tailored to needs

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Must have experience in planning within medium to large scale non-infrastructure project.
• Confidence in managing a planning team.
• Good understanding of programming techniques is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage programming and planning for water asset management programmes.
• Produce and review project controls and dashboards.
• Support commercial teams with accurate forecasts.

Skills

NEC / IChemE contract-based Planning experience

Experience in civils and MEICA projects

Management of a planning team

Understanding of commercial matters

Competency in Primavera P6

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Planner to join our Natural Resources team, working on projects in the Thames Valley region (North). In this role you'll assist in planning to deliver programmes of work within non-infrastructure schemes like upgrades to wastewater treatment works.

Location

Working from home and site/offices as and when required across the Northern Thames Valley region.

Contract

Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know.

Responsibilities

• Being the programming and planning conscience on a water asset management programme of works.
• Reviewing, and where required, producing programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, project controls dashboards, reports and programme narratives, from 1st principles.
• Analysing contract metrics, making improvement recommendations.
• Supporting the commercial team to ensure accurate forecasts, with reference to programme, are produced.
• Reviewing resource loading, and maintaining schedule resources in a Primavera P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work.

Qualifications

• Must have NEC / IChemE contract-based Planning experience, within medium to large scale non-infrastructure project or portfolio work.
• Experience of civils and MEICA based projects in the water industry.
• Confidence and experience of managing a planning team.
• Good understanding of commercial and contractual matters and thorough experience and understanding of programming techniques.
• Competency in the use of Primavera P6.

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.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business 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.

We look forward to seeing your application.