Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer (Barton Upon Humber)-(EST0000Y8)
Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay, free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity:
UK Field Solutions has over 50 years’ experience working in the construction industry. Our core business is the delivery of projects and programmes in partnership with our clients. We have a wide and diverse pool of experienced resources using proven delivery systems and processes that are benchmarked as best in class.
This is a role for an experienced planning engineer/senior planner working across the business unit. It presents an exciting opportunity for someone to join a growing team focused on excellence within the project control’s function.
Role Outline/Responsibilities:
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic individual who are keen to cement our existing expertise in delivering projects to our key clients and driving the growth of our business in this sector.
1. Reporting to the Group Head of Planning, responsible at tender stage for the range of activities involved in the project planning life cycle, which include:
2. Identifying planning scope, working with all disciplines to ensure the full project scope is captured within the programme
3. Building the programme from first principles, ensuring that programme content is functionally compliant with the planning procedures and guidance
4. Establishing and agreeing with Operations key methods of construction, sequencing, installation, and commissioning
5. Producing and documenting the planning deliverables including programmes, basis of schedule, presentations, and reports
6. Developing overall programmes, issuing to all parties for review and implementing recommendations, innovation, and best practice as applicable
7. Cost and resource loading, plus resource levelling techniques as required
8. Interfacing with third parties to identify and resolve issues
Here's What You'll Need:
9. Experienced with Primavera P6
10. An ability to travel to project sites on a regular frequency and or as determined by project requirements
11. Experience within the water industry or process engineering would be advantageous and experience across all stages of the project life cycle in medium to large sized projects within the construction industry 1m – 20m
12. Substantial experience of planning service
13. Good understanding of the various forms of tender documents, contract documents and specifications
14. Good understanding of the various methods of planning, programme, and progress monitoring, risk and opportunity management with reference to planning & programming
15. Good understanding of the construction market, methods of construction, plant, equipment, and labour requirements
16. Strong communication skills, including writing reports & presenting