Our client is a main civil engineering and infrastructure contractor, they currently have a requirement for a Senior Planner located in St Albans.
They are looking for a driven individual with a can-do attitude who will be a key member of a wholly collaborative team and will use their experience, enthusiasm, and skills to help the team drive efficiency and outperformance.
This is an opportunity for an experienced planner to join the team and play a key role in the delivery of high-profile projects within the civil engineering sector.
Key Responsibilities:
• To ensure that planning standards – at both organisation and project level – are exceeded across all projects and planning & control procedures are adhered to.
• Assist with the tender, pre-construction, and delivery of a range of opportunities and live projects by collaboratively developing and maintaining robust detailed project plans.
• Ensure project plans capture the full project scope, resources are considered and loaded as required, and contractual & programme-specific requirements are met.
• Collaboratively develop and establish optimal construction methodologies, logic sequences & work outputs by drafting programmes for review and preparing logistics diagrams.
• Proactively identify opportunities and risks in the plan. Monitor the critical path and key milestones, advising the delivery team on any potential changes and leading challenge and mitigation actions.
• Thoroughly develop programmes to demonstrate the impact of change in compliance with the contractual and project-specific requirements.
• Visit sites and attend progress meetings. Monitor progress and update short-term plans, progress reports and construction programmes.
• Develop 4D animations of the project plan to aid digital rehearsal of the project construction.
Key measures & targets:
• All set deadlines adhered to.
• Recovery of up to 90% of time lost in live projects.
• Agreement of up to 80% of programmes.
• Input into programme development.