Senior Planner

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks team based in Norfolk

Location: Whitlingham, Norwich - hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Effective planning is a cornerstone of successful project management. The project plan is the roadmap to us delivering the project on time. It allows us to identify the whole scope of the project and the resources required to deliver it. It helps us understand and manage our key interfaces, identify, manage and mitigate risks, and to identify, exploit and maximise opportunities.

In this role, you'll be supporting the Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) team that consists of Anglian Water, Kier, Barhale & Morrisons who work across multiple disciplines including Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation on water recycling solutions and the clean water base. We incorporate new construction, replacements or repairs spanning across the Anglian Water region.

What will you be responsible for?

The Senior Planner is a key member of the team to collaboratively develop and maintain accurate and robust project plans. Working closely with all the other members of the team, you will take ownership of the project plan by driving the project team to deliver to the plan and challenge any delay & deviation.

Your day to day will include:

• Work closely with the operational teams to plan the sequence of work, logistics and resourcing of the projects
• Monitoring and providing the conscience of the projects, through the design, construction, commissioning, and handover phases
• Regular identification of change and early warning matters are an absolute. Requiring production and subsequent communication of assessments with the commercial team to manage any change
• Production and management of our programme submissions, in line with contract requirements or ad-hoc as required by our Delivery Managers
• Ensuring our teams are delivering the projects as efficiently as possible, whilst identifying delivery opportunities and risks

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is great for you if you hold:

• Experience of working on large scale or significant value projects within the civil engineering sector, preferably in the water industry
• Experienced user of Primavera P6 along with one or more civils, water, wastewater or M&E
• Knowledge of current H&S requirements and NEC contract conditions
• Full driving licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier