Equans Data Centers is seeking to appoint a Senior Planner to be based on a project site in Newport/West Drayton. The Senior Planner will provide a professional planning service in every stage of the project lifecycle from tender through to design, construction and commissioning and will play a key role within project teams.
Equans Data Centers deliver fully integrated engineering solutions for technically detailed projects in the Data Center industry. The Senior Planner will provide professional planning services for project delivery and will have the scope to work on projects of different sizes in these sectors.
Responsibilities
* Provide planning services as a key part of the project team ensuring the teams are delivering on project time objectives.
* Understand for each project the level of planning service and anticipated time allocation to provide that service.
* Identify, communicate and manage project risks; collaborate with the team to solve any issues or problems.
* Build strong internal and external relationships with the Planning department and broader project and client teams.
* Communicate with other disciplines within production teams to ensure they are aware of their roles in meeting the programme.
* Ensure compliance with company procedures and planning standards.
* Provide detailed and accurate regular progress reporting to the project team and client as required.
* Summarise projects status upstream to senior management, highlighting any unresolved major risks and potential overruns.
* Manage time and workload to ensure deadlines are met. Highlight any potential work overload or slackening to Line Manager as soon as it is apparent.
* Review processes to enhance planning best practice that can aid and improve performance and consistency across the project teams and wider planning community.
* Lead programme meetings and react quickly to any client‑led changes, ensuring that there are auditable trails.
* Form robust links with all key stakeholders by working closely with senior managers and directors.
* Review projects that have deviated from plan and provide advice on plans and strategy, subsequent causes and effects, and contribute to decisions as to the best way forward.
Benefits
* Competitive salary, car or car allowance.
* 25 days annual leave (plus public holidays).
* Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary.
* Company stakeholder pension scheme.
* Private medical insurance (family cover).
* 2 corporate social responsibility days per year.
* Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training and personalised support programmes.
* Attractive employee referral rewards scheme.
* Access to growing employee networks including AccessAbility, Encompass, RISE, Women Together, Working Parents and Young Professionals.
* 24/7 employee assistance programme and access to mental wellbeing app.
Qualifications
* Experience of construction projects across a broad range of sectors (bias towards data centre and pharmaceutical industries).
* Planning software expertise, preferably P6 and Asta Powerproject.
* Ability to manage multiple project programmes running in parallel.
* Demonstrated knowledge of all aspects of a project lifecycle: design, procurement, construction (structure, architecture, M&E services, process) and commissioning.
* Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly and clearly articulate key issues and to listen and capture concerns of others.
* Knowledge of the key features of common forms of contract entered into in the UK.
* Attention to health and safety matters.
* Commercially astute.
* Excellent knowledge of Excel for use in dashboard reporting.
* A strategic approach, whilst communicating effectively, making decisions with confidence and getting the best out of others.
We encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.
For this role you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. There is no relocation package offered. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check.
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