Construction Planner

2 days ago

York, United Kingdom Portakabin Full time

We have an opportunity for you to join our team in York as a Construction Planner. In this role you will provide professional construction programming support to the business to win and deliver building solutions within our Project Delivery team.

**Role Details**
- Salary: £60,000
- Role based: York
- Contract type: Permanent
- Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays

**Role Responsibilities**
- Develop a fully integrated, linked programme to support work winning activities and live projects.
- Attend tender interviews where required to discuss and demonstrate proposed build programmes.
- Assist the Buying Team to develop sub-contract enquiry documentation and procurement programmes.
- Carry out site visits to monitor and report progress of construction programmes when required.
- Interrogate progress information supplied to ensure that progress is reported accurately and with reference to the contract.
- Analyse critical paths and key milestones and advise Project Managers of any risks, opportunities and any mitigation strategies to maintain the project completion date.
- Collate and maintain accurate progress outputs and feed information back to the business for future work prospects.
- Liaison with manufacturing to ensure productions slots are agreed and fit-out works are scheduled in accordance with the agreed programme.
- Update the resource programme for allocation of Contract, Project & Site Managers to relevant projects.
- Produce progress reports to the management team to highlight actual progress made and risk identification. Compilation of mitigation plans where necessary.

**Benefits & Opportunities**
- Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
- Working flexibly principles
- Contributory pension
- Annual bonus
- Company Car
- A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
- Employee Assistance Program
- A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off

We are looking for someone who has:

- Full UK driving license
- Experience in construction programming
- Experience of working with the demands of a fast paced environment and able to prioritise tasks independently.
- Understanding of commercial contracts (JCT, NEC 3) & P21+
- Competent in the use of programming software

Even if you do not match all of our ‘ideal’ criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.

**About Portakabin**

As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.

Portakabin remains in the ownership of the York based Shepherd family and now employs more than 1,750 people across ten European countries.

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