Planner

Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.

**Location**: Flexible working available, where you will be initially based out of our Penrith with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites

**Contract**: Permanent, Fulltime

**Salary**: £competitive

**Responsibilities**

As a Planner, you’ll be working within the Highways Major Projects, supporting projects in Penrith.

Your day to day will include:

- all aspects of planning, phasing, coordination and sequencing for tenders and live projects
- the incorporation of design, procurement and pre-construction activities into a fully integrated, logic linked programme
- timely and accurate progress updates, development and maintenance of the integrated schedule, and provision of time-related data and analysis

**Who are we looking for?**

This role of Planner is great for you if have:

- experience in a similar role gained on major projects with a main contractor or design consultancy
- understand and demonstrate knowledge of highways design and construction methodology
- able to develop survey, design and construction programmes based on agreed methodology
- good IT skills and experience of using professional planning tools such as Primavera P6, TILOS and MS Office

**Benefits at Kier**

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- fantastic matched pension scheme
- share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Green Car Scheme

**Who is Kier?**

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

**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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

Closing date: 26 April 2023

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