Senior Planner

EQUANS; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Car or car allowance

Life Cover 4x annual salary

Private Medical Insurance (Family)

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Equans Data Centers is seeking a Senior Planner to join on-site on project sites at High Wycombe, Newport or Motherwell to support delivery across tender through commissioning. You will provide professional planning services, develop and maintain schedules, manage risks, and ensure alignment with project teams and client requirements.

You will lead programme meetings, produce regular progress reports, and contribute to planning best practice while collaborating with senior managers and directors

Qualifications

• Experience on construction projects, especially data centers.
• Proficient with Primavera P6 and Asta Powerproject.
• Ability to manage parallel programmes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement.
• Knowledge of UK contract forms.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning services across tender to commissioning stages.
• Identify and manage project risks with the team.
• Lead programme meetings and manage client changes.
• Deliver regular progress reporting to team and client.
• Maintain auditable trails of planning decisions.
• Collaborate with senior managers and directors.

Skills

Construction projects

Planning software

Multiple projects

Communication skills

UK contracts knowledge

Health & safety

Excel reporting

Commercial awareness

Tools

Primavera P6

Asta Powerproject

Job description

Equans Data Centers are seeking to appoint a Senior Planner to be based on a project site in either High Wycombe, Newport or Motherwell to assist the delivery of our projects. The Senior Planner will provide a professional planning service in every stage of the project lifecycle from tender, through to design, construction and commissioning. The Senior Planner will ensure all activities are captured, whilst playing a key role within project teams.

Equans Data Centers deliver fully integrated engineering solutions for technically detailed projects in the Data Center industry. The Senior Planner will provide professional planning services for project delivery and will have the scope to work on projects of different sizes in these sectors.

What you will deliver?

• Provide planning services as a key part of the project team ensuring the teams are delivering on project time objectives.
• Understand for each project the level of planning service and anticipated time allocation to provide that service.
• Identifying, communicating and managing project risks. Collaborating with the team to solve any issues or problems.
• Build strong internal and external relationship with the Planning department and broader project and client teams.
• Communicating with other disciplines within production teams to ensure they are aware of their roles in meeting the programme.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures and planning standards.
• Providing detailed an accurate regular progress reporting to the project team and client as required.
• Summarise projects status upstream to senior management, highlighting any unresolved major risks and potential overruns.
• Manage time and workload to ensure deadlines are met. Highlight any potential work overload/slackening to Line Manager as soon as it is apparent.
• Review processes to enhance planning best practice that can aid and improve performance and consistency, across the project teams and wider planning community.
• Lead programme meetings and react quickly to any client-led changes, ensuring that there are auditable trails.
• Form robust links with all key stakeholders by working closely with senior managers and directors.
• Review projects that have deviated from plan and provide advice on plans and strategy, subsequent cause and effect and contribute to decisions as to the best way forward.

What we can offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance and benefits package, which includes;

• 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
• Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary
• Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover)
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalised support programmes
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards SchemeAccess to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN Together (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

Who are we looking for?

• Experience of construction projects across a broad range of sectors (bias towards Data Center and the Pharmaceutical (Cleanrooms/laboratories) industries).
• Planning software expertise, preferably in P6 and Asta Powerproject.
• Ability to manage multiple project programmes running in parallel.
• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of a project lifecycle: design, procurement, construction (structure, architecture, M&E services, process) and commissioning.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly and clearly articulate key issues and to listen and capture concerns of others.
• Knowledge of the key features of common forms of contract entered into in UK.
• Attention to Health and Safety matters.
• Commercially astute.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel for use in dashboard reporting.
• A strategic approach, whilst communicating effectively, making decisions with confidence and getting the best out of others.

Who are we?

Equans Data Centers is a strategic data centre partner. We deliver the whole data centre, providing full general contracting for hyperscaler and colocation data centre projects across Europe, through a single point of contact.

Leveraging Bouygues Energies & Services and Equans' experiences, we provide expertise in construction and engineering, global standardisation, precision localisation and total control of the supply chain. This enables us to deliver data centres with the best possible quality, speed to delivery and high repeatability and scalability – to realise client needs for cost transparency, low risk, continual availability, innovation and certainty of planning and outcomes.

With more than 1,200 highly skilled employees across 8 European countries, Equans Data Centres has delivered over 400,000m2 of data halls, exceeding 640MW of IT space for major data centres providers such as VIRTUS Data Centers, Digital Reality, Equinix, Vantage Data Centers, Stack Infrastructure, Data4 and many others.

As part our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.

At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you’ll find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.

You’ll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN Together (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.