Senior Planner

Parkinson's UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Parkinson's UK is looking for a Senior Planner to join their engineering services team in Birmingham. The role focuses on managing complex mechanical and electrical projects, providing functional leadership, and ensuring effective planning and reporting to drive project success. Candidates should be passionate about the construction field and eager to contribute innovative ideas within a supportive team.

Benefits

Competitive salary & profit share scheme

Car Allowance / Company Car

Travel covered to sites

Private Medical

Pension with 6% employer contribution

26 days holidays + bank holidays

Family leave benefits

Qualifications

• Passionate about mechanical and electrical aspects of construction.
• Ability to ensure adequate planning and programming of projects.

Responsibilities

• Work with site team for project programme integration.
• Study specifications and drawings for planning adequacy.
• Report regularly on project progress.

Skills

Mechanical understanding

Electrical understanding

Project management

Job description

This is a Permanent , Full Time/Flexible Working vacancy that will close in 5 days at 23:59 BST .

The Vacancy

SENIOR PLANNER - SES

SES Engineering Services are looking for a Senior Planner to join our team in the Midlands, focussing on high profile, technically complex mechanical and electrical projects across multiple sectors.

If you are passionate about mechanical and electrical aspects of construction and are looking for an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas and elevate yourself within the industry then join us and help to create tomorrow together.

This is a great opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Senior Planners are a valuable part of our business, and their role will encompass ensuring adequacy of the planning and programming of projects. Whilst providing functional leadership and following company procedures and project requirements to allow proper management and commercial protection to be achieved.

As our Senior Planner you will:

Work with the site team and main contractor to ensure the projects have fully integrated programmes sequenced in the correct manner to allow the successful completion of the project

Thoroughly study specifications, drawings and relevant contract documents/ correspondence in conjunction with engineers and surveyors to ensure adequacy of the planning and programming of projects

Carry out regular reporting on projects to allow the site team to understand the programme position in relation to progress

Liaise with the project team to ensure progress reports, progress percentages and drop-down programmes, are produced and issued in accordance with SES Best practice, company procedures and project requirements to allow proper management and commercial protection to be achieved

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive salary & profit share scheme

Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)

Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)

Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 6% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…

Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.

Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all of the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.

If you would like clarity on any of our vacancies or to discuss career opportunities in strict confidence, please contact our In-House Recruitment Team directly via [e-mail] and one of us will get in touch as soon as possible.

As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.

Working at SES

SES Engineering Services (SES) is recognised as one of the leading M&E partners in the UK. Specialising in the design and installation of building services and infrastructure solutions, SES covers all aspects of M&E engineering.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.