MWH Treatment is looking to strengthen their Planning team with a Senior Planner for our North West region. You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated.
Directly reporting to the Senior Planning Manager, the responsibility is to assist other members of the project teams to develop, monitor, progress, and report on tender and contractual programmes. This includes ensuring that all parties, including Design, Operational, and Commercial members of the team, are fully briefed on the critical activities and risks of their projects at all times.
The Senior Planner 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, and challenge any delay and deviation. Leading, coaching, and guiding junior Planners, you’ll be viewed as an approachable planning expert who is keen to pass on experience and knowledge to develop others and drive performance improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
* Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation. Ensuring that they are compliant and realistic. Experience of developing design programme is beneficial.
* Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them, and submit them for acceptance as contractually required.
* Assist with and/or deliver collaborative planning workshops.
* Liaise with project teams to ensure consistency of key assumptions on methodology and outputs.
* Identify opportunity and key risks during the planning process.
* Gather, collate, and distribute progress information and the reasons for deviations/delays.
* Maintain a baseline programme and measure progress against it.
* Monitor and analyse changes to scope and revise programmes accordingly.
* Attend progress/project meetings and present programmes for review.
* Attend site meetings to gather progress information.
* Lead the development of Construction phase 4D Planning.
* Report programme issues to the Senior Planning Manager and site management team.
* Distribute regular look ahead programmes.
* Ensure an As Built programme is available at project closedown.
* Maintain knowledge of site processes and costs.
* Record the effects of changes on site and the effects on the contract programme.
* Assist with the monthly progress report in line with customer requirements.
* Build and maintain relationships with the Senior Planning Manager, Project Manager, Commercial team, and client representatives.
* Assist with the administration of Primavera P6 planning software.
* Deliver planning software training to new users when required.
Essential:
* Experience in planning of civil, M&E design and delivery projects as contractor.
* Knowledge of current HSE practices and CSCS card holder.
* Experience of working with NEC3/4 contracts.
* Competent in the use of Microsoft software and application.
* Proficient in use of Primavera P6 planning software.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Ability to identify risks and opportunities.
* Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
* Comfortable working to tight deadlines.
* Able to focus on deliverables.
* Proactive attitude.
* Ability to identify and solve problems.
* Able to manage own workload to meet deadlines.
Desirable:
* Water Industry experience.
* Site-based engineering background.
* Professional qualification.
* Current Water Hygiene card holder.
* Familiar with contract management software such as CEMAR and Aconnex.
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