Senior Planner

Lanesra Technical Recruitment; Skelmersdale; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Senior Planner for a key role in Wigan. This position offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary of £65k-£72k, plus benefits. The ideal candidate will possess extensive planning experience in civil projects, especially in the water/wastewater industry, and have proficiency in Primavera P6. Benefits include car allowance, life assurance, and health insurance.

Benefits

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Pension contribution

Life assurance

Health insurance

Private medical insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in planning of civil, M&E design and delivery projects as a contractor.
• Knowledge of current HSE practices & CSCS card holder.
• Competent in the use of relevant software applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop, monitor, and report on tender and contractual programmes.
• Work closely with the commercial team to monitor costs.
• Prepare compliant and realistic programmes from tender documentation.

Skills

Planning of civil projects

NEC3/4 contract experience

Communication skills

Primavera P6 proficiency

Tools

Microsoft software

Primavera P6

Job description

Position: Senior Planner

Location: Wigan with hybrid working available

Salary Guide: 65-72k (neg DOE) plus car/allowance and excellent benefits

Our Client: Is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, which is delivering a significant proportion of United Utilities programme of clean and wastewater non-infrastructure projects throughout the Northwest.

The Role: Our client is looking to strengthen their planning team with a Senior Planner for the UU region, principally at a wastewater treatment works near Wigan. You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated.

Reporting directly to the Senior Planning Manager, your responsibility is to develop, monitor, progress & report on tender and contractual programmes. This includes ensuring that all parties including design, operational & commercial members of the team are fully briefed on the critical activities & risks of their projects at all times.

You will work closely with the commercial department to monitor costs, take ownership of several project plans, drive the project team to deliver to the plan & challenge any delay & deviation. Leading, coaching & guiding junior planners.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation. Ensuring that they are compliant & realistic. Experience of developing design programme is beneficial.
• Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them & submit them for acceptance as contractually required
• Assist with and/or deliver collaborative planning workshops
• Liaise with project teams to ensure consistency of key assumptions on methodology & outputs
• Identify opportunity & key risks during the planning process
• Gather, collate & distribute progress information & the reasons for deviations/delays
• Maintain a baseline programme & measure progress against it
• Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly.
• Attend progress/project meetings & present programmes for review.
• Attend site meetings to gather progress information
• Lead the development of construction phase 4D planning
• Report programme issues to the Senior Planning Manager & site management team
• Distribute regular look ahead programmes
• Ensure an as-built programme is available at project closedown
• Maintain knowledge of site processes & costs
• Record the effects of changes on site & the effects on the contract programme
• Assist with the monthly progress report in line with customer requirements
• Build & maintain relationships with the Senior Planning Manager, Project Manager, Commercial team & client representatives
• Assist with the administration of Primavera P6 planning software
• Deliver planning software training to new users when required

Experience:

• Essential: Experience in planning of civil, M&E design and delivery projects as a contractor
• Knowledge of current HSE practices & CSCS card holder
• Experience of working with NEC3/4 contracts
• Competent in the use of Microsoft software & application
• Proficient in use of Primavera P6 planning software
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to identify risks & opportunities
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable working to tight deadlines

Desirable:

• Water/wastewater Industry experience
• Site based engineering background
• Professional qualification
• Current Water Hygiene card holder (training available)
• Familiar with contract management software such as CEMAR and Aconnex
• NEC3/4 contractual experience.

Package includes:

• A competitive salary
• Car/car allowance (subject to role and level of position)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private medical Insurance
• And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc.