Senior Tender Planner – Pre-Construction (Primavera P6)

Designer Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Designer Group invites applications for a Senior Planner – Pre-Construction / Tender. The role focuses on creating robust, logic-driven tender programmes using Primavera P6 for Data Centre, Energy & Industrial, and Building Services sectors.

You will identify risks at bid stage and help secure contracts with clear, client-ready schedules. You will report to the Head of Planning and collaborate with Estimating, Engineering and Operations teams to deliver high-quality, well-presented tender

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or similar.
• 6+ years in construction planning, with 3+ years in pre-construction or tender planning.
• Experience building tender programmes from first principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning input to tenders from enquiry through submission and award.
• Develop detailed tender programmes in Primavera P6 covering procurement to handover.
• Review documents to identify dates, access, damages and obligations.
• Define procurement strategies and long-lead equipment schedules.
• Define testing, commissioning sequences and interfaces with stakeholders.
• Model interfaces with clients, main contractors and subs.
• Work with Estimating to align durations with labour and preliminaries.
• Identify risks, opportunities and perform schedule risk analysis.
• Prepare narratives, methodologies and exclusions for tenders.
• Produce client-ready outputs to Designer Group standards.
• Present and defend programmes at bid reviews and client meetings.
• Manage multiple tenders and meet deadlines.
• Handover awarded programmes to delivery planning with clear communication.
• Capture lessons learned for future bidding.

Skills

Tender planning

Stakeholder engagement

Programme risk analysis

Contractual awareness

Under pressure

Education

Degree in Engineering/Construction Management

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Excel

MS Project

Job description

Designer Group invites applications for a Senior Planner – Pre-Construction / Tender. The role focuses on creating robust, logic-driven tender programmes using Primavera P6 for Data Centre, Energy & Industrial, and Building Services sectors.

You will identify risks at bid stage and help secure contracts with clear, client-ready schedules. You will report to the Head of Planning and collaborate with Estimating, Engineering and Operations teams to deliver high-quality, well-presented tender