Senior Planner - Civil Infra, Primavera Expert, 4D

Barhale; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice

Company car/van scheme

Job summary

Barhale seeks an experienced Senior Planner to drive efficient planning across civil engineering projects in the UK. You will manage robust programmes, link tender and delivery plans, and integrate NEC requirements with subcontract schedules.

The role requires strong communication under pressure, site involvement, and a collaborative approach to continuous improvement within Barhale’s frameworks and major schemes.

Qualifications

• Advanced Primavera P6 experience and NEC knowledge.
• Lead collaborative planning processes and extract information from drawings to implement efficient planning.
• Strong communication under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Adaptable, innovative, and supportive to enhance planning within the business.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that planning standards – at both organisation and project level – are exceeded across all projects and planning & control procedures are adhered to
• Assist with the tender, pre-construction, and delivery of opportunities and live projects by collaboratively developing and maintaining robust, detailed project plans
• Ensure project plans capture the full project scope, resources are considered and loaded as required, and contractual & programme-specific requirements are met
• Collaboratively develop and establish optimal construction methodologies, logic sequences & work outputs by drafting programmes for review and preparing logistics diagrams
• Proactively identify opportunities and risks in the plan
• Monitor the critical path and key milestones, advising the delivery team on any potential changes and leading challenge and mitigation actions
• Thoroughly develop programmes to demonstrate the impact of change in compliance with the contractual and project-specific requirements
• Visit sites and attend progress meetings
• Monitor progress and update short-term plans, progress reports and construction programmes
• Develop 4D animations of the project plan to aid in the digital rehearsal of the project construction
• Manage all project reporting requirements, including monthly programme submission, weekly lookahead submission, weekly dashboard and volumetric analysis
• Manage and coordinate all impact demonstration and analysis programmes in line with the NEC contract requirements
• Review, interrogate and integrate subcontract programmes into the project programme

Skills

Primavera P6

NEC contracts

Planning leadership

Effective communication

Adaptable / innovative

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering/Construction or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC)

Job description

Barhale seeks an experienced Senior Planner to drive efficient planning across civil engineering projects in the UK. You will manage robust programmes, link tender and delivery plans, and integrate NEC requirements with subcontract schedules.

The role requires strong communication under pressure, site involvement, and a collaborative approach to continuous improvement within Barhale’s frameworks and major schemes.