Job Role:
Taylor Woodrow is recruiting for a Senior Planner to join our Pre-Construction Planning team based in Watford. Reporting to the Head of Planning, the Senior Planner 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 Senior Planner 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
Duties:
* Ensure that all activities are planned with time allocated for HSE needs such as documentation and approvals, training, competency checks etc.
* Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction. This is likely to include stage diagrams to explain the proposed sequence.
* Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.
* Be aware of the bid win strategy and contribute to the strategy with innovation options.
* Communicate the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan to the project team utilising visual aids (e.g. stage diagrams; sequence diagrams etc.) to suit.
* Liaise with the Estimating and temporary works departments to ensure allowance is made in Preliminaries and the programme for temporary works.
* Challenge and verify suppliers and sub-contractors programme and methodology
* Determine the requirements for Site set-up and independently prepare phasing, logistics and timeslices along with associated methodology/narratives as required by the tender deliverables
Person Specification
* Degree qualified within an engineering discipline or equivalent
* Extensive experience in planning on civil engineering or building projects, either office or site based.
* Advanced use of specialist software e.g. Primavera P6, CAD, PowerPoint, 4Projects etc.
* Professional Membership: ICE or APM Membership is desirable