Planning Manager
Salary: £70,000 - £85,000 per annum plus package
Location: Watford (2 days WFH)
Job Role
The Planning Manager will support the Head of Planning within the Pre-Construction Planning team. They will lead the development and production of a tender programmes and supporting information; ensuring it complies with the Contract and Works Information.
Planning Manager Duties
• 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.
Planning Manager Person Specification
• The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years’ experience since graduation on civil engineering projects.
• Able to digest high level of information and provide expanded detailed analysis using their work experience.
• Proactive in providing information and contributing to the quality submission for the Bid with relation to Programme and Methodology items.
• Understanding of BIM and its implications and value proposition within the organisation.
• A willingness to incorporate new evolving technologies such as AI into their workflows.