Senior Site Planning Manager

Arabelle Solutions; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Senior Site Planning Manager to lead planning activities at Hinkley Point C. The role involves managing site planners, ensuring robust scheduling, and providing critical analysis for project planning. Ideal candidates will have a degree and experience in the construction industry, along with strong management and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role in a construction environment is essential.
• Proven knowledge of typical power plant processes.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required.
• Experience in leading and developing teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide all planning related deliverables including programme updates.
• Guide and support the team on critical or potentially critical issues.
• Identify potential delays by site subcontractors and provide analysis.
• Draft and validate site rebaselining of programmes as directed.

Skills

Excellent management and organisational skills

Verbal and written communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Problem-solving abilities

Education

Bachelor/Engineering degree

PMP certification

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Office

Job description

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We are recruiting an experienced Site Planning Manager to join and lead our team at HPC. As the Site Planning Manager you will provide clear and sustained leadership of the site planning activities ensuring adherence to the project and business directives and ISO requirements. You will be responsible for leading the HPC site planners to consolidate one single schedule through all site phases, ensuring that as the owner of the site programme they are maintained, valid, robust and regularly updated as required.

Hinkley Point C (HPC) will be a new nuclear power station in the UK. Once operational it will deliver 3.2 GW of carbon-free electricity, powering 6 million homes, and contributing to the UK Net Zero and strategic autonomy objectives. Arabelle Solutions plays a key role in the entry into operation of the HPC power station through the delivery of 2 turbine islands on a turnkey basis, designing, procuring, manufacturing, installing and commissioning all power generating equipment of the conventional island, including the 1750 MW Arabelle turbine and the 75 inches last stage blade.

Come and join us on this exciting project, where technical complexity and team collaboration are essential characteristics.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide all planning related deliverables including programme updates, critical and near-critical paths, issues of concern, reports, etc., ensuring these are delivered concisely and timely.
• Provide clear and concise data to the Site Director and project team and guide, support and direct the team on critical or potentially critical issues or concerns.
• Support the Project Planning Manager for all planning related issues with the client, including participation in regular meetings and discussions.
• Work closely with the contracts lead (site subcontracts) to identify potential delays by site subcontractors and provide time impact analysis to support claims for subcontractor delays.
• Support the Project Planning Manager in identifying potential delays caused by the Customer and provide time impact analysis and substantiation of any delays to support claims for extension of time.
• Maintain commercial awareness with a focus across the construction scope to support earliest revenue recognition and cash in.
• As directed by the Project Planning Manager, draft and validate any site rebaselining of programmes, ensuring the rebaselined programmes meet recognised good practice with adequate logic, reasonable use of constraints and sufficient float, and realistic baselines.
• Follow New Build planning processes, procedures, methodologies, tools (P6, PMS / PR / CMS), and standardised reports as applicable.
• Periodically update the planning close-out report (site part) of the project during the project life cycle.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor/Engineering degree and PMP certification or equivalent experience is desirable.
• Experience in a similar role in a construction environment is essential, with proven knowledge of typical power plant processes.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written) with the ability to communicate with and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in leading and developing teams.

Desired Skills

• Excellent management, organisational, verbal and written communication skills, with good investigative and problem-solving abilities and strong interpersonal skills.
• Enthusiastic, self-driven, thorough in approach, and capable of working independently and in a team.
• Expertise in substantiating delay claims is desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of planning tools, including Primavera P6, and strong computer skills (MS Office, database tools, and analytical skills).

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering, Project Management, and Strategy/Planning
• Industries: Electric Power Generation