Our Client is a well-established contractor operating across major infrastructure and utility projects in the UK. They are currently seeking a Senior Planner to join their team in London.
Experience Required for Senior Planner:
- You’ll have demonstrable experience of working on relevant projects within the civil engineering sector, preferably in the Water Industry.
- Relevant construction PM qualification.
- Advanced (Primavera) P6 experience and knowledge of NEC.
- Previous experience of leading collaborative planning processes, you’ll have the ability to interrogate/take information from drawings to implement an efficient planning service for the business.
- Your ability to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences whilst working in pressurised situations to tight deadlines will be crucial.
- Able to adapt as required to meet project objectives, you will be innovative and supportive of other members of the team to enhance the reputation of the planning team across the business.
- Previous experience with Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC).
- Experience in working on-site with an understanding of how a project works from inception to completion. - Degree within Civil Engineering/Construction or equivalent.
Responsibilities of Senior Planner:
- To ensure that planning standards – at both organisation and project level – are exceeded across all projects and planning & control procedures are adhered to.
- Assist with the tender, pre-construction, and delivery of a range of opportunities and live projects by collaboratively developing and maintaining robust, detailed project plans.
- Ensure project plans capture the full project scope, resources are considered and loaded as required, and contractual & programme-specific requirements are met.
- Collaboratively develop and establish optimal construction methodologies, logic sequences & work outputs by drafting programmes for review and preparing logistics diagrams.
- Proactively identify opportunities and risks in the plan.
- Monitor the critical path and key milestones, advising the delivery team on any potential changes and leading challenge and mitigation actions.
- Thoroughly develop programmes to demonstrate the impact of change in compliance with the contractual and project-specific requirements.
- Visit sites and attend progress meetings.
- Monitor progress and update short-term plans, progress reports and construction programmes.
- Develop 4D animations of the project plan to aid digital rehearsal of the project construction.
- Manage all project reporting requirements, including but not limited to monthly programme submission, weekly lookahead submission, weekly dashboard and volumetric analysis.
- Manage and coordinate all impact demonstration and analysis programmes in line with NEC contract requirements.
- Review, interrogate and integrate subcontract programmes into to project programme