Senior Planner

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[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. We are one of the UK’S most successful Tier 1 contractors.

About the role

You will be working within our North East & Cumbria Construction Business on the £5.1 billion Defence Estates Optimisation Programme where you will:

• Plan construction works from first principles
• Produce fully logic linked design, procure and construct tender programmes
• Produce and assist in the production of tender logistics plans, method statements, and temporary works (TW) schedules (including scaffold)
• Engage with supply chain and team members to discuss and achieve optimum programme and method solutions
• Assist project managers with onsite planning and reporting requirements
• Produce robust fully logic linked design, procurement, construction and commission tender programmes compliant with tender sum, design (where appropriate) and methodology without assistance for small to medium sized projects
• Produce tender deliverables as required (agreed at tender kick off meeting)
• Work with allocated operations support in the production of method statement and scaffold schedule etc and ensure that programme reflects agreed methods
• Produce (or lead if outsourced) logistics plans / phasing plans
• Ensure all deliverables are produced to the agreed Tender Activity Programme (TAP) timescales to ensure they are available to other members of the tender team in good time
• Engage with supply chain and team members to discuss and achieve optimum programme and method solutions

Ideally you will have

• Asta Power Projects & P6 experience
• Significant experience in the main contracting market with experience of working on Defence leisure and healthcare schemes between £70 and £100 million.
• Refurbishment experience
• Experience of NEC 4 contracts

What are we looking for?

As an experienced and talented Senior Planner, you will have a good understanding of programme and programme management, project planning including programme controls, project review, and cost and risk analysis. HNC (or equivalent) in Building Studies or other equivalent related subject. Competent in using project management software.

To thrive in our business, you should share our passion for the project at hand and enjoy working in an inclusive and hardworking team environment. At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] our employees work collectively, encouraging and challenging each other to succeed.

We are [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] North East and Cumbria

Our people in the North East and Cumbria area are encouraged and rewarded to work as a team to achieve our Perfect Delivery philosophy.

Equality Statement

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Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion. We encourage applicants regardless of background.

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