Assistant Planner

1 week ago


Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time
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Laura Shirley
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Life assurance

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Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%

Enhanced family leave & policies

Share plan schemes

Free health & wellbeing services

Opportunity to purchase health benefits & insurance

Assistant Planner

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We're looking for an Assistant Planner to join the Southern Planning Team based in our South West Region.

Location: Southampton / Hampshire & surrounding counties

Contract: Permanent

What will you be responsible for?

As an Assistant Planner, you will be working with the Pre Construction & Construction Delivery Teams to offer planning support on multiple projects at tender, PCSA and delivery stages of that range from £5M - £120M+ in value.

The Assistant Planner will retain an overall development & monitoring capacity for projects to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with project requirements.

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

  • Reporting to senior planning team members & project leads within the region managing fully integrated programmes that incorporate all disciplines (i.e. design, commercial, construction).
  • Monitoring of tender event schedule (TES) / procurement schedule
  • Producing site logistics, scaffold schedules, temporary power & water requirements, temporary work schedules
  • Identification of programme float and reporting on its status to the Senior Planners / Project Managers
  • Consider alternative methods of delivery and accurately assess potential sequence changes to the critical path

Who are we looking for?

This role of an Assistant Planner is great for you:

  • Understanding of programme from PCSA programme through to construction.
  • Operational experience including experience of planning projects within the construction industry.
  • Basic understanding in the use of planning techniques and the required planning toolsets – Asta Powerproject
  • Awareness of various forms of tender documents, contract documents and specifications including JCT, NEC or bespoke forms of Construction Contracts.
  • An OND/HND in a relevant subject is desirable, as is Professional membership of one or more of the following: RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE

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 #joinkier

  • Kier Construction Southern - Assistant Planner

  • Location: Southampton

  • Vacancy ID: 8546
  • Background check: None
  • Flexible Working: Yes

    Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.


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