Job Description
Planning Manager - Pre Construction
Location: Watford
Salary / Benefits Circa £71,000 -£79,000 plus car / allowance and package this is negotiable dependant on expertise
Summary
A major infrastructure and civil engineering contractor is looking to hire as a Planning Manager.
As a Planning Manager you will be working in the Pre-Construction Planning team based in Watford and reporting to the Head of Planning, The Planning Manager will assimilate the tender documents and produce a plan to deliver the project and communicate the plan to the Bid team. They will develop and produce a tender programme to comply with the Contract and Works Information, and to reflect the most efficient and effective sequence to deliver a project, or section of works.
The Planning Manager will be responsible for liaising with the Estimating team and assisting with the preparation of Preliminary Items; method related items; reconciliation of labour, plant and equipment. They will also assist our bid team with the presentation of the plan and programme at internal governance meetings
This role could potentially suit a Section Manager or Assistant Project Manager wanting a new challenge.
Duties for this Planning Manager Role
• Manage the planning on the tender to produce the plan and programme for submission.
• Communicate the plan to everyone involved including external stakeholders.
• Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction.
• Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.
• Communicate and gain approval from the bid/project team, the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan utilizing visual aids and graphics developed from concept and detailed drawings.
• Liaise and negotiate with suppliers communicating proposed methods and sequence.
• Assist the bid team to evaluate supply chain quotations/methodologies that relate to programme.
• Manage the resource and cost loading of the programmes in liaison with the Estimating team to produce a commercial forecast if required.
• Training up junior engineers to become Planners
Planning Manager Person Specification
• Extensive experience in planning on civil engineering or building projects, either office or site based
• Need to have first-hand site experience from a Construction background
• Experience in a range of sector Energy, Rail, Motorways, Wind Farms, Flood schemes etc
• Degree qualified within an engineering discipline or equivalent
• Able to digest high level of information and provide expanded detailed analysis using their work experience.
• Advanced use of specialist software e.g. Primavera P6, CAD, PowerPoint, 4Projects etc.
Professional Membership: ICE or APM Membership is desirable
• Past history of how you have delivered something to stakeholders. (plesse reference this in your CV/Coversheet)