Senior Planner - Construction

Position: Senior Planner

Location: Christchurch with hybrid working available

Salary: 65-75k (Neg DOE), car/allowance and excellent benefits package

Rate: (Apply online only) per day (Neg DOE, inside IR35). 12 months + duration

Our Client: Is an integrated design and build solution provider operating in the water sector. They have over 1,000 staff working across eight regional centres, primarily supporting eight long term water sector frameworks operating both on their own and increasingly in joint ventures and alliances.

The Project: A water treatment works near Christchurch is undergoing a major 85m upgrade. This involves implementing advanced modular ceramic membrane technology and ozone dosing to provide a cleaner, more efficient, and reliable drinking water supply for the region.

The upgrade uses a Design for Modular Assembly (DfMA) approach, with 70 modular units being fabricated and tested off-site before being delivered to the site for installation.

The modular approach is expected to deliver the project at twice the speed of traditional methods.

The Role: You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated.

Reporting directly to the Senior Project Manager, your 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 always briefed on the critical activities & risks of their projects.

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. Lead, coach & guide 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.

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

Experience: Essential

Experience in planning of civil, M&E projects

Knowledge of current HSE practices & CSCS card holder

Experience of working with NEC3/4 contracts

Competent in the use of Microsoft software & application

Proficient in use of Primavera P6 planning software

Excellent communication skills

Ability to identify risks & opportunities

Able to work in a fast-paced environment

Comfortable working to tight deadlines

Able to focus on deliverables

A proactive attitude

Ability to identify & solve problems

Able to manage own workload to meet deadlines

Desirable

Water Industry experience

Site based engineering background

Professional qualification

Current Water Hygiene card holder

Familiar with contract management software such as CEMAR & Aconnex

Package includes: A competitive salary, car/car allowance (level dependent)

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)

Contribution Pension scheme, Life Assurance, Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance and many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc.

Key Words:

Planning Engineer

Planner

Project Planner

Senior Planner

Senior Planning Engineer

Senior Project Planner

Construction

Project Programmes

P6 Programmes

Project Delivery

Project Plans

Water Industry

Water Sector

Water Treatment

Clean Water

Sewage

Wastewater

Waste Water

Utilities

Highways

Power

Energy

Nuclear

Energy from Waste

Rail

Infrastructure

Primavera

P6

Southern Water

Thames Water

Veolia

AMP 7

AMP 8

NEC