Senior Planner

2 weeks ago


Southampton, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join the Southern Planning Team based out of Southampton.

**Location**: Southampton, Hampshire & surrounding counties

**Contract**: Permanent, Full-Time

**What will you be responsible for?**

As a Senior Planner, you will be working across the Pre Construction & Construction Delivery Teams to offer planning expertise on multiple projects at tender, PCSA and delivery stages of projects that can range from £5M - £100M+ in value.

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

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

- Producing fully integrated programmes incorporating all disciplines (i.e. design, commercial, construction) based on output rates & benchmarking, with sufficient time risk allowances, terminal float / buffer to contractual completions and agreement with trade packages
- Production & monitoring of tender event schedule (TES) / procurement schedule
- Producing site logistics, scaffold schedules, temporary power & water requirements, temporary work schedules
- Developing information for tender settlements including benchmarking
- Liaising with sub-contractors
- Attending regular site visits
- Providing Kier team with assistance on live planning issues
- Collating progress information including as-built information including outputs
- Forecasting programme scenarios and communicating these to project teams
- Developing mitigation strategies
- Reviewing subcontractor programme / logistics information including their compliance with contract conditions
- Driving mid & short term planning procedures
- Input to weekly / fortnightly project team progress reports
- Production of internal planning based monthly progress report
- Production of monthly client progressed programmes and any supportive narrative for review and approval by project leads prior to submission
- Advising and providing planning expertise across projects
- Assistance in developing junior members of the Southern planning team

**What are we looking for?**

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

- Have construction planning experience gained within the main contractor environment
- You have a solid history of working on tenders and live projects between £5M - £100M+ in value
- You are an experienced user of Asta Powerproject software
- Able to use Bluebeam (oir similar) for take off's, logistic plans etc
- You have strong knowledge of JCT & NEC contract conditions & can implement the requirements on project programmes
- Experience in developing claims / CE's

**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.


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