Senior Planner

Navartis; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management company in the United Kingdom seeks a Planning Lead for complex infrastructure projects in the Water sector. The role involves developing robust programmes, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, and leading project controls outputs. Ideal candidates will have significant onsite experience in major construction, relevant education, and proficiency in Primavera P6. This position offers a pivotal role in the management of complex projects, ensuring successful delivery within contractual frameworks, and contributing to asset management programs.

Qualifications

• Relevant onsite experience in a role with transferable skills on complex, major Construction Industry projects.
• Able to understand design (technical) information, drawings, specifications.
• Proven understanding of labor and material requirements for carrying out works.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning for large, complex multi-discipline infrastructure projects.
• Accountable for ensuring full compliance with contractual requirements.
• Produce comprehensive programmes from 1st principles.

Skills

Knowledge of site works

Construction phasing

Sequencing

Design interpretation

Understanding of plant and equipment

Education

Relevant Construction Industry / Water Sector related degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Responsibilities

: You'll lead the planning and be responsible for ensuring that the Planning function plays a pivotal role in the successful delivery of assigned projects(s) / packages. This will generally be on large, complex multi-discipline (Civils and MEICA) infrastructure projects in the Water sector and you'll be responsible for developing robust programmes, monitoring progress, identifying risks, and ensuring the successful execution of assigned projects(s) / packages.

Your day to day will include :

• Being the programming and planning conscience on a water asset management programme of works.
• Be the lead in Planning to deliver all programme and project controls outputs for your assigned works and assist others for the wider works.
• Accountable for ensuring full compliance with contractual requirements, including programme submissions, early warnings and change management.
• Produce comprehensive programmes from 1st principles.
• Review resource loading, and maintain schedule resources in a Primavera P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work.

Experience Needed :

• Relevant onsite experience in a role with transferrable skills on complex, major Construction Industry projects.
• Knowledge of Site works and methodology, construction phasing, sequencing, and integration of design, procurement and delivery activities of Project lifecycles.
• Able to understand design ( / technical) information, drawings, specifications, interpret markups and contract documents.
• Proven understanding of plant, equipment, labour and material requirements for carrying out works and typical production rates.
• Relevant Construction Industry / Water Sector related degree (or experience and training).

If the position could be of interest, please respond back to my email with an up-to-date CV and we can look to arrange call and hopefully submit to the client.