Planning Manager
Collaborate across disciplines & sub-contractors to develop and revise the delivery programme, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of intended delivery strategy, dependencies, risks, change and progress.
Establish & maintain periodic progress reporting, contribute insights, identify issues, risks and propose actionable solutions
Ensure key stakeholders across disciplines and organisation are appropriately informed.
Contribute to the risk register and schedule risk analysis.
Formal identification, impact assessment and notification of programme change
Work closely with other planners/sections to identify and plan critical dependencies.
Lead collaborative planning and interface workshops.
Promote the Planning function and work collaboratively with peers to drive best practice and project performance.
Inspire and empower the wider planning community to deliver high quality standards & outputs
Contribute to coaching, supporting and formal training of others in the project Profile
An effective and clear communicator, skilled in building relationships and thrives in large, fast-paced, multi-discipline teams.
Capable of identifying, challenging and succinctly articulating issues and solutions that impact project outcomes.
Extensive experience of Civil Engineering and/or Construction projects with a proven track record of delivering large-scale civil structures, ideally with a Tier 1 contractor
Sound working knowledge of NEC contracts, specific to the programme obligations within Clauses 31 & 32 and the commercial interfaces.
Desirable - full project lifecycle experience, particularly design & build within large-scale rail & structure projects
Computer literate with extensive working knowledge of Primavera P6 planning software.
People are our business worldwide
Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables