Senior Planner

**We have an opportunity for a Senior Planner **to join our Construction team in the Northern Home Counties, to provide an effective and professional planning and programming service for pre-contract and project teams.

Wates Construction is a UK-wide contractor specialising in maximising value for customers in the public and private sector, with an uncompromising focus on safety and quality. We have a proven track record in all our core markets: commercial and mixed-use developments, education and student accommodation, heritage, local authority frameworks, inner-city residential, senior living, industrial and research, we’re also experts in sustainability and ensuring we create a better tomorrow.
**As a Senior Planner, some of your Key Accountabilities will include**:

- Instigate and monitor a balanced suite of performance measurement criteria throughout a project’s lifecycle
- Ensure proper integration of design and procurement elements of programmes with construction
- Produce integrated tender programme and method statement and present proposals to settlement meeting
- Change management: review programme effect of changes and advise on EOT issues
- Produce schedules as well as obtain and analyse quotes for all time-related preliminaries
- Accountability for the most complex, largest or several significant projects and manage all to a successful conclusion with mínimal supervision, this may involve supervising other Planners
**We are looking for** a professional Senior Planner with knowledge of commonly used forms of construction contracts as well as an awareness of a variety of performance measurement techniques, such as Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Analysis and use of Key Performance Indicators.
**To be successful in this role **you will be a qualified Planner with effective communication skills and solid experience on Construction projects of over £30 million.