Senior Civil Planner for Major Infrastructure Projects

J Murphy & Sons; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

J Murphy & Sons is seeking a Senior Civils Planner to collaborate across disciplines in developing and maintaining the civil delivery programme, identifying dependencies, risks, and progress. You will contribute to progress reporting, risk analysis and interface coordination with other planning teams.

In this role, you will prepare resourced programmes, support bid activities, and coach others in planning best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience on Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects.
• Major civils, construction, or depot build experience is essential.
• Railway experience is preferred, but not essential.
• Proven experience of first principles planning, with ability to create robust complex build schedules from design drawings.
• Use of planning software (P6, Microsoft Project) and NEC knowledge.
• Active experience with planning techniques for tendering and contract delivery.
• A clear understanding of commercial and contractual interfaces with planning.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across disciplines to develop and revise the civil delivery programme, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of intended delivery strategy, dependencies, risks and progress.
• Input into progress reporting, contribute insights, identify issues and propose effective solutions.
• Prepare a resourced programme, including reviewing the outcome for conformance with expectations and requirements.
• Contribute to the risk register and undertake schedule risk analysis.
• Work closely with other planners/sections to identify and plan critical interfaces.
• Input into collaborative planning and interface workshops.
• Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly fashion.
• Carry out other relevant duties as required from time to time.
• Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others.
• Provide a link to communicate planning community information between all parties
• Draw up a bid preparation programme and contribute to the tender queries database.
• Define methods and establish competitive outputs, in consultation with the estimator and other team members, including the supply chain in appropriate circumstances.
• Assist with the design engineer to establish a design brief for temporary works.
• Provide the estimator with a justified schedule of temporary works and other indirect cost items

Skills

First principles planning

Interface planning

Tender planning

Collaborative planning

Progress reporting

Build schedules from drawings

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

NEC contracts

Job description

J Murphy & Sons is seeking a Senior Civils Planner to collaborate across disciplines in developing and maintaining the civil delivery programme, identifying dependencies, risks, and progress. You will contribute to progress reporting, risk analysis and interface coordination with other planning teams.

In this role, you will prepare resourced programmes, support bid activities, and coach others in planning best practices.