Senior Planner

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Project Planner to join us in our North West Region aligned with a major project in Lancaster.

**Location**: Lancaster / Manchester, Some WFH available

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent, flexible options considered

**What will you be responsible for?**

The Senior Project Planner will work closely with the Project Team to assist them in developing realistic target construction programmes, retaining an overall monitoring capacity for complex 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, including the coordination of design, commercial and production activities into one truly Integrated Programme.
- Creating of look ahead programmes, individual trade package programmes.
- Monitor and update progress and undertake regular progress monitoring drop lines.
- 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.
- Work closely with Project teams to assist in the production of accurate progress reports.

**What are we looking for?**

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

- Can demonstrate experience in the role, working on high value construction projects
- Are an experienced operator of Planning software - Primavera P6/ Asta or Microsoft Project.
- Expert knowledge of NEC and JCT Contract Conditions
- Good construction technical knowledge across relevant work packages
- Keen eye for detail, ability to draw on project experience to identify and mitigate programme risks
- Highly organised and able to work to multiple deadlines across multiple concurrent projects.

**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.