Senior Planner

4 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our strategic projects business in an exciting role that will be aligned with high value construction projects.

**Location: Newcastle**

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent

**What will you be responsible for?**

As Senior Planner you will be involved in high value construction projects across Healthcare, MOD, MOJ and Life Science sectors providing support through PCSA and delivery phases. You will work closely with senior members of the project team to assist them in developing realistic target construction programmes, retaining an overall monitoring capacity for complex project to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with project needs.

Your day to day will include:

- All aspects of planning, phasing, programming and sequencing for our tendering activity, including the coordination of design, commercial and production activities into one truly Integrated Programme.
- Creating of look ahead programmes, individual trade package programmes, monitoring and updating progress and undertake regular progress monitoring drop lines.
- Developing ideas to drive improvement and consistency in the timely delivery of our preconstruction preferred bids and our live projects.
- Supporting and mentoring project leads to ensure they have the technical software skills to produce their own regular look ahead programmes.
- Advise on affect of any project slippage on existing programmes and update accordingly. and work closely with Project teams to assist in the production of accurate progress reports.

**What are we looking for?**

This role of Senior Planner is great for you if you can demonstrate:

- Comfort using planning software - Asta / Primavera or Microsoft Project.
- Experience in construction planning with a main contractor on high value projects
- Good construction technical knowledge across relevant work packages
- Excellent communication skills, able to work across teams in an advisory capacity and collaborate across departments.
- Keen eye for detail, ability to draw on project experience to identify and mitigate programme risks

**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.

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