As a Senior Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Day-to-day, you’ll utilize your strong communication, relationship building and team playing capability to ensure the integrated schedule is reflective of all contract work and deliverables, reflects current status / progress, is used to drive focused and effective delivery and supports clear performance measuring:

• You will work with various stakeholders including Project Managers, Control Account Managers, Project Controllers, customers and wider project stakeholders.
• You will also sit within our Planning Discipline, reporting to a Principal Planner (or similar role) who will support future development. Your motivation, drive and passion for managing and delivering successful project outcomes will win the hearts and minds of customers and colleagues alike.
• Provide planning services as a key part of the project team ensuring the teams are delivering on project time objectives.
• Understand for each project the level of planning service and anticipated time allocation to provide that service.
• Identifying, communicating and managing project risks. Collaborating with the team to solve any issues or problems.
• Build strong internal and external relationship with the Planning department and broader project and client teams.
• Communicating with other disciplines within production teams to ensure they are aware of their roles in meeting the programme.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures and planning standards.
• Providing detailed an accurate regular progress reporting to the project team and client as required.
• Summarize projects status upstream to senior management, highlighting any unresolved major risks and potential overruns.
• Manage time and workload to ensure deadlines are met. Highlight any potential work overload/slackening to Line Manager as soon as it is apparent.
• Review processes to enhance planning best practice that can aid and improve performance and consistency, across the project teams and wider planning community.
• Lead programme meetings and react quickly to any client-led changes, ensuring that there are auditable trails.
• Form robust links with all key stakeholders by working closely with senior managers and directors.
• Review projects that have deviated from plan and provide advice on plans and strategy, subsequent cause and effect and contribute to decisions as to the best way forward.
Who we are looking for:

• Experience of construction projects across a broad range of sectors
• Planning software expertise, preferably in P6
• Ability to manage multiple project programmes running in parallel.
• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of a project lifecycle: design, procurement, construction (structure, architecture, M&E services, process) and commissioning.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly and clearly articulate key issues and to listen and capture concerns of others.
• Knowledge of the key features of common forms of contract entered into in UK.
• Attention to Health and Safety matters.
• Commercially astute.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel for use in dashboard reporting.
• A strategic approach, whilst communicating effectively, making decisions with confidence and getting the best out of others.