Senior Planner

Your New role Here at National Highways, we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our team in Bedford. Within this role, you will be responsible for delivering excellence in the planning and scheduling across programmes and schemes regionallyand embedding the planning strategy and associated management processes. What you’ll be leading on - Provide specialist support to delivery teams (e.g. Project Managers, Route Managers, etc.) to document and maintain programme delivery plans and schedules, tracking and monitoring in-year delivery against planned budgets, timescales and quality - Compile yearly scheme programmes for the regional Operations Programme Office that can be used as the cornerstone of delivering in year and future year targets. Supporting the team in working towards and maintaining the "one programme" approach - Update the scheme progress on a regular basis with consistent use of project controls. Provide programme status and variance reports including those to fully support internal month end and year end reporting. Lead on provision of key programme informationincluding forecast/actual dates and outputs - Ensure that regional delivery plans are version controlled and maintained in accordance with agreed Operations and wider National Highways common standards and requirements - Ensure that supply chain contractors project plans and schedules are of a quality, logic, format and content that enable accurate and robust interrogation and are contract compliant; analyse and challenge critical path and time risk allowance of supplierand project schedules - Provide regular reports on schedule status and performance, reviewing programme development and reporting, collaborative/last planner activities and monitoring progress against weekly activities. To be Successful - Operational experience with professional accreditations in planning & scheduling, project & programme management - Skilled and experienced in project and programme management methodology and techniques (Primavera P6, MSP, APM, etc.) - Detailed operational working knowledge of Primavera P6 - Thorough understanding of the NEC Contract and its requirements from a planning and scheduling perspective - Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills A bit about us Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future. **About Us** At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. Our benefits package Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%. We also offer: - Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays) - Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home - Life assurance of 4 times annual salary - Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines - A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel - Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience And we are: - Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities - Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation And finally we reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires