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Newcastle Upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear)
Permanent
Costain Group PLC
Planner
€47,500 a year
Posted: 14 December
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Job Description

Costain has won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by Northumbrian Water to the Living Water Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme with contracts valued at up to £670m over the next 15 years.

Reporting to the Planning Lead, the Planner will ensure projects stay on track by updating and maintaining the project programme. The role will be based initially on multiple live sites across County Durham, during construction phase, monitoring site delivery programme and updating contractual submissions to Northumbrian Water. The programme will be maintained through delivery phase to handover and then to completion.


Responsibilities

* Prepare robust contract programmes using the designated planning tool that link design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and handover, in line with the project life cycle.
* Display and analyze the project Critical Path and advise the project team (including client) of results and any appropriate corrective action.
* Produce and maintain project baselines and execute change control process as appropriate.
* Regularly update schedules to reflect progress, change events, risks and opportunities.
* Produce fully logic-linked programmes, ensuring alignment with NEC contract requirements.
* Support the site delivery team in the production and maintenance of short-term lookahead programmes.
* All programmes and documentation to be produced to company practices and procedures.
* Manage several programmes and support other Planning Engineers/Junior Planning Engineers, including supervision and checking of work to ensure all work complies with company standards and procedures.
* Support implementation of project controls, including earned value analysis, reporting dashboards and performance metrics.


Essential Qualifications

* Proven experience in project planning within civil engineering, utilities or major infrastructure.
* Construction / Engineering experience.
* Understanding of NEC contract mechanisms and programme requirements.
* Ability to engage and build strong relationships with stakeholders, striving for mutual success.
* Able to work and learn quickly in a fast‑paced, fun and dynamic environment.
* Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do.
* Flexibility and adaptability to respond rapidly to unexpected events and shape responses appropriately.
* Excellent written and oral presentation skills to present complex interdependencies simply and clearly.
* Relevant engineering or project management qualification.
* CSCS.
* Full UK driving licence.


Desirable Qualifications

* Water industry experience.
* Enterprise working.
* Proficiency in Primavera P6.


Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level


Employment type

Full‑time


Job function

Other

Industries: Civil Engineering


About Us

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue‑chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery.

Costain appreciates the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at the application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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