A multi-disciplinary company looking to strengthen their pre-construction team team with a Planning Manager for their Southern Water region. Directly reporting to the Head of Planning, your core responsibility is to manage other members of the project teams to develop, monitor, progress & report on tender & contractual programmes. The Planning Manager will be required to work closely with the commercial department to monitor costs, take ownership of several project plans, drive the project team to deliver to the plan & challenge any delay & deviation Key Responsibilities: Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation. Ensuring that they are compliant & realistic Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them & submit them for acceptance as contractually required Assist with the delivery of collaborative planning workshops Lead the development of Construction phase 4D Planning Maintain a baseline programme & measure progress against it Liaise with project teams to ensure consistency of key assumptions on methodology & outputs Identify opportunity & key risks during the planning process Gather, collate & distribute progress information & the reasons for deviations/delays Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly. Attend progress/project meetings & present programmes for review. Attend site meetings to gather progress information Distribute regular look ahead programmes Ensure an As Built programme is available at project closedown Assist with the administration of Primavera P6 planning software Deliver planning software training to new users when required About The Candidate: You will have experience in planning of Civil and M&E projects, ideally within the water sector. In addition to this, you'll need: Knowledge of current HSE practices & CSCS card holder Experience of working with NEC3/4 contracts Proficient in use of Primavera P6 planning software Familiar with contract management software such as CEMAR & Aconnex (Desirable) Get in touch today to find out more