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Balfour Beatty plc
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Job summary
Balfour Beatty is seeking a motivated Planner to join our growing Planning team in the North West region. You will develop and maintain project programmes, collaborate with project teams and supply chain partners, and provide planning expertise for successful delivery across major infrastructure projects.
You will work with Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject or MS Project while identifying risks, driving performance and supporting forecast, change control and project controls processes in a hybrid
Qualifications
- Experience in planning within construction, infrastructure, engineering or related industries.
- Experience developing and managing project programmes from tender to delivery.
- Proficiency with planning software such as Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject or MS Project.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to translate technical information into practical project plans.
- Good understanding of project controls, scheduling and construction methodologies.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- A proactive approach and commitment to delivering high-quality work.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and monitor detailed project programmes.
- Support tender and pre-construction activities with programme submissions and planning documentation.
- Create logical construction sequences and methodologies to support delivery.
- Monitor progress and performance against baselines.
- Identify risks, opportunities and critical path activities.
- Produce planning reports, updates and performance metrics.
- Support forecasting, change control and programme management.
- Coordinate with internal teams, subcontractors and stakeholders to meet planning requirements.
- Provide accurate planning information to support decision-making and controls.
- Contribute to continuous improvement within the planning function.
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Balfour Beatty is seeking a motivated and experienced Planner to join our growing Planning team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the successful delivery of major infrastructure and construction projects across the North West region of the UK.
Planner
North West UK
Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty is seeking a motivated and experienced Planner to join our growing Planning team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the successful delivery of major infrastructure and construction projects across the North West region of the UK.
As a Planner, you will play a key role in developing, maintaining and analysing project programmes throughout the project lifecycle. Working closely with project teams, stakeholders and supply chain partners, you will provide planning expertise that supports efficient project delivery, identifies risks and opportunities, and drives performance across a range of complex engineering and construction environments.
- Develop, maintain and monitor detailed project programmes.
- Support tender and pre-construction activities by producing programme submissions and planning documentation.
- Create logical construction sequences and methodologies to support efficient project delivery.
- Monitor project progress and performance against programme baselines.
- Identify programme risks, opportunities and critical path activities.
- Produce planning reports, programme updates and performance metrics.
- Support project teams with forecasting, change control and programme management activities.
- Coordinate with internal teams, subcontractors and stakeholders to ensure planning requirements are met.
- Provide accurate planning information to support decision-making and project controls processes.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the planning function.
- Previous experience in a Planning role within construction, infrastructure, engineering or a related industry.
- Experience developing and managing project programmes from tender stage through to project delivery.
- Proficiency with planning software such as Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject or Microsoft Project.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to interpret technical information and translate it into practical project plans.
- Good understanding of project controls, scheduling and construction methodologies.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- A proactive approach and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
- 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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