Senior Planning Engineer

BAM UK & Ireland; Scotland; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

BAM UK & Ireland seeks an experienced Senior Planning Engineer to join their ASTI onshore team, focusing on energy infrastructure projects across Scotland. The role involves creating detailed project programmes and collaborating with various teams to support the delivery of renewable energy initiatives.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company car/car allowance

8% matched pension contributions

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ planning experience.
• Experience with NEC contracts preferred.
• Competent in P6 software.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed programmes in P6.
• Manage sub-contractor and supplier programmes.
• Coordinate with estimators on programme aspects.

Skills

Communication

Planning

Logical Thinking

Change Management

Education

HND in Civil Engineering/Construction or equivalent

Tools

P6

Excel

Power BI

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Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM Infrastructure are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Senior Planning Engineer to join our ASTI onshore team. As part of this team, you will play a key part in delivering large civil engineering projects that will provide critical infrastructure to enable future, renewable developments across Scotland. The projects are located near Inverness-shire and along the Moray coast. You will be required to work out of our regional offices initially, which are located in Inverness and Kilsyth before visiting site during project delivery. The projects are within the energy infrastructure sector, building new substations and HVDC converter stations to support Scotland's transition to net zero.

Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM Infrastructure are looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Senior Planning Engineer to join our ASTI onshore team. As part of this team, you will play a key part in delivering large civil engineering projects that will provide critical infrastructure to enable future, renewable developments across Scotland. The projects are located near Inverness-shire and along the Moray coast. You will be required to work out of our regional offices initially, which are located in Inverness and Kilsyth before visiting site during project delivery. The projects are within the energy infrastructure sector, building new substations and HVDC converter stations to support Scotland's transition to net zero.

Your work environment

• BAM operates a flexible working policy
• People are at the heart of what we do at Bam. We recognise that creating a diverse and inclusive environment that nurtures our employees and encourages them to bring their best and whole self to work is crucial. We're on an exciting journey to get us there by recruiting the very best talent to join us regardless of race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
  
  

Your mission

As a Senior Planning Engineer, you will report to the Framework Planning Lead and be responsible for the following:

• Developing and maintaining detailed programmes in P6 from first principles including resource loading.
• Integration and management of sub-contractor and supplier programmes with our own.
• Assimilate and interpret information from tender and project documentation.
• Understand civil construction techniques and developing them into a working programme.
• Coordinate with estimators and commercial teams on all programme aspects.
• Compile concise narratives, phasing, reports and supporting documents for input into quality submissions for tenders and projects.
• Take ownership of the programme to drive project delivery.
• Utilise a number of planning techniques and tools to communicate the programme effectively.
• Contribute, support and communicate programme information, risk and commercial issues to operational teams in a variety of formats.
• Chair collaborative planning workshops with clients, operational teams and subcontractors (depending on Project requirements).
• Update and monitor project progress, compile reports against project and contract requirements.
• Introduce and analyse change in programmes and support the commercial teams.
• Evaluate supply chain and subcontract programmes.
• Comply with business processes and systems.
• Maintain awareness of latest construction techniques.
  
  

Who are we looking for?

• Experience of delivering programme under the NEC form of contract is preferable.
• Must have at least 5 years’ planning experience and will require the ability to communicate and manage own workload and support Planning Engineers within a portfolio of projects
• A qualification in Civil Engineering/Construction to HND level or equivalent is preferred but not essential
• Competent in the use of various planning software, P6 is a must.
• A demonstrable ability to develop, own and drive programmes.
• The ability to communicate effectively with all parties.
• Comfortable in presenting and client facing situations.
• Can demonstrate experience of working closely with site construction teams and understanding of each "customer's" programme requirements.
• A clear ability for logical thinking and working in an ordered fashion.
• The ability to work to often challenging timescales.
• Experience in producing summary construction or project control information in excel and Power BI would be an advantage
• Tender experience would be an advantage.
• Strong commercial and contractual acumen with a track record of change management within NEC contracts.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family-friendly policies
• Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development
  
  

BAM Infrastructure is also committed to equality of opportunity in all its employment practices, and to developing policies that support work-life balance.

Who are we?

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

Our recruitment process

For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Jonathan Schulte, Recruitment Manager, BAM Infrastructure, m: 07717 227890 / Email: [e-mail]

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.

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