Project Planner

**Description**:
The opportunity has arisen to join an industry leader in UK’s Building Services sector. Alternative Heat design, develop and deliver a wide range of offsite-prefabricated, innovative, and sustainable building service solutions throughout the UK & Europe.

We specialise in the design, supply, and installation of a wide range of prefabricated energy solutions, typically built in NI and shipped throughout the UK & Europe. We also offer turnkey design, build, and operational solutions for commercial energy centres and large-scale district heating solutions and have experience with successfully procuring and delivering many similar packages to a wide range of public bodies throughout UK & Europe.

Due to continued growth, we are looking to integrate a Project Planner to support our growing teams.

**Job Title** | **Project Planner**
**Location** | **6100 Knights Court, Solihull Parkway, Birmingham, B37 7WY**
**Hours** | **8am - 5pm Mon/Thurs** **8am - 3pm Fri**
**Salary** | **Based on Experience**
**Responsible to** | **Head of operations**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Planning works from Design & Construction Phase.
- Monitoring Progress during construction and coordinating updates and revisions.
- Attending internal and external project meetings, presenting project information and updates on areas of responsibility.
- Preparation of Construction programmes outlining design and production performance for the senior management team on monthly reports.
- Accurately identifying and forecasting the work timescales and resource requirements for projects labour.
- Support the company by developing methodologies to control and forecast work timescales and resource requirements.
- Preparing and presenting programme dates to influence programme decision making.
- Co-ordinate with the project team to accelerate tasks and resolve issues.
- Monitor Actual v programme progress, produce S curves and dropline programmes whilst indicating areas for improvement.
- Provide support to site, delivery, and project teams, highlighting issues and tabling potential actions.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Essential Criteria**:

- A minimum of 2-3 years’ experience of working in a similar role.
- Good understanding of the construction industry and processes, from the design stage through to completion of the projects
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Project, Asta, Primavera P6 and Microsoft Office packages
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good administrative, organisational and time management skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative, displaying a proactive approach to all tasks.
- Ability to plan, manage and prioritise own workload.
- A team player.
- Seeks continuous improvement.
- Ability to undertake work related travel, as required.

**Benefits**:

- Full in-house training and career development opportunities
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance scheme
- Health cash plan
- Free annual health check
- 30 days annual leave increasing in line with length of service.
- Secure, free onsite parking
- Free Coffee and Tea provided daily.
- Friendly and supportive working environment.

**About Alternative Heat**:
With over 17 years of experience within the Commercial Offsite Fabrication industry, Alternative Heat have established themselves as a market leader in this sector.
Located centrally between Dublin and Belfast our 8.5 acre Head Office and feabrication facilities, which are fully equipped with overhead cranes and 8,000m² of workshop floor area, provide an ideal factory construction environment which is reflected in the high quality solutions we offer.
We employ a strong team of design engineers, CAD technicians, contracts managers and skilled trades personnel who utilise their vast industry experience to assist in the design, fabrication and delivery of our bespoke MEP solutions, which we supply throughout the UK and Ireland.