Senior Planner / Planning Manager

Mwh Treatment; Rishton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment is seeking a Senior Planner to strengthen the planning team for our east Manchester projects and other NW projects. You will ensure project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated.

Reporting to the Senior Planning Manager, you will assist teams to develop, monitor, progress and report on tender and contractual programmes, briefing operational and commercial members on critical activities and risks at all times.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction project planning and control.
• Proven ability to lead and develop junior planners.
• Strong understanding of tender and contractual programmes.
• Proficiency in monitoring progress and reporting against baselines.

Responsibilities

• Develop programmes from tender docs and ensure they are realistic.
• Maintain a baseline programme and measure progress against it.
• Lead development of Construction phase 4D Planning.
• Collaborate with commercial to monitor costs and risks.
• Attend progress and site meetings to gather and present progress.
• Prepare and distribute progress information and look-ahead programmes.

Skills

Project planning

Team leadership

Risk management

Cost monitoring

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

MWH Treatment is looking to strengthen their Planning team with a Senior Planner for our east Manchester projects & other NW projects. You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated.
Directly reporting to the Senior Planning Manager, Their responsibility is to assist other members of the project teams to develop, monitor, progress & report on tender & contractual programmes. This includes ensuring that both the operational & commercial members of the team are fully briefed on the critical activities & risks of their projects at all times.

The Senior Planner will be required to 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, you’ll be viewed as an approachable planning expert who is keen to pass on experience & knowledge to develop others & drive performance improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation. Ensuring that they are compliant & realistic
• Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them & submit them for acceptance as contractually required
• Assist with the delivery of collaborative planning workshops
• Lead the development of Construction phase 4D Planning
• Maintain a baseline programme & measure progress against it
• 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
• Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly.
• Attend progress/project meetings & present programmes for review.
• Attend site meetings to gather progress information
• 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