Senior Planner

Superior Recruitment Group; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency has a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Planner to join a large client in Hull. In this permanent position, you will develop project control strategies and oversee project budgets. The role requires strong communication skills and extensive experience in project controls with an educational background in Engineering or related fields. A living away allowance is provided for those outside Hull.

Benefits

Living away allowance

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in a leadership role in project controls.
• Proficiency in P6 and other project control systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage project control strategies.
• Collaborate with project managers to meet objectives.
• Monitor and adjust budgets according to project changes.

Skills

Project control strategy

Strong communication skills

Analytical skills

Leadership in project controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related fields

12 years' experience in Construction Management

Tools

P6

SAP

PowerBI

Job description

Overview

Superior Recruitment Group have a fantastic opportunity available in Hull for a Senior Planner to join a large client.

This is a Permanent position and there will be a living away allowance provided for anyone out-with the Hull area.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and manage an effective project control strategy whilst maintaining the project controls plan and associated procedures
• Ensure project schedules, including resource loading, critical path analysis and progress monitoring are adopted across all projects
• Collaborate with commercial manager, project managers and engineers to ensure project objectives are achieved within scope, schedule, and budget constraint
• Establish cost engineering systems to monitor, control and report costs
• Aid in the development, integration and optimisation of project programmes
• Liaise with PMs/RDs to manage the provision of appropriate resources and expertise to successfully deliver the project control activities
• Liaise with project teams to identify project risks and associated control measures, plus opportunities
• Assist in the development and monitor the performance of key contracts
• Ownership of the update of business process and reporting systems/timelines through to project closure
• Develop bespoke and/or generic rules of credit
• Develop structured naming conventions in P6 to be rolled out through the business

Specific Activities

• Review and approve prior to issuance all cost/planning information required for Monthly Project Board meeting
• Set up and lead the Project Control Meetings
• Ensure we have robust monthly project updates to the project risk registers and value analysis processes
• Manage the integration of programmes from various sources
• Implement progress monitoring and productivity measurement
• Define and issue the project work breakdown structure and estimating format
• Monitor expenditure and adjust budgets in accordance with the project change control system

Experience & Qualifications

• Knowledge and proficiency in P6
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written, plus strong analytical skills
• 8 years of experience in a leadership role in project controls
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related fields and twelve (12) years' experience in Construction Management, and or ICostE, CEng, IEng
• ERP system, estimating software, SAP
• PMO Experience
• Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI and MS tools
• Excellent communication skills