Overview
Our Planning Engineers all come from a site background, as this role involves using your site experience to provide support to the pre-contract tender team, finding solutions to engineering problems, planning bid winning methods of construction, creating scheme programmes and assist with bid writing. This role will be working out of either our Tamworth office or Chesterfield office (whichever is located closer to you). Due to the nature of this role a full UK licence is essential.
Main Duties
* Provide advice and assistance on planning, programming, methods of construction and solutions to engineering problems.
* Ensure that any programmes and supporting documents produced comply with all scheme specific constraints.
* Ensure that while planning each tender, all possible alternative methods and strategies have been considered and discussed with the tender team.
* Assist with providing supporting documents for each tender submission as required.
* Jointly review sub-contracted design work with respect to buildability and tender compliance, seeking advice from the Technical Manager when necessary.
* Keep up to date with industry developments, innovations, and legislation.
We're after someone with good communication skills who can confidently present their work within their team and to clients. They will be able to engage with suppliers to discuss requirements and, ideally, the successful candidate should be conversant with programming software such as Asta or Microsoft Project, although training can be provided.
At Jackson we are dynamic, innovative, and focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting and varied projects. We want our people to succeed both in work and life and to support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.
Benefits
* Life assurance cover (4x annual salary)
* Company pension scheme (we match up to 8%)
* 25 days holiday (pro rata) plus bank holidays (with an option of buying more holiday)
* Extensive training programmes
* Cycle‑to‑work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee benefits platform
* Free on‑site parking
* Company social calendar
* Regular fun days and a broad range of charity events
* A supportive business that genuinely wants to help you progress in your career.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
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