Position: Senior Planner Location: Wigan with hybrid working available Salary Guide: £65-72k (neg DOE) plus car/allowance and excellent benefits Our Client: Is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, which is delivering a significant proportion of United Utilities programme of clean and wastewater non-infrastructure projects throughout the Northwest. The Role: Our client is looking to strengthen their planning team with a Senior Planner for the UU region, principally at a wastewater treatment works near Wigan. You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated. Reporting directly to the Senior Planning Manager, your responsibility is to develop, monitor, progress & report on tender and contractual programmes. This includes ensuring that all parties including design, operational & commercial members of the team are fully briefed on the critical activities & risks of their projects at all times. You will 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. Leading, coaching & guiding junior planners. Responsibilities: Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation. Ensuring that they are compliant & realistic. Experience of developing design programme is beneficial. Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them & 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 & outputs Identify opportunity & key risks during the planning process Gather, collate & distribute progress information & the reasons for deviations/delays Maintain a baseline programme & measure progress against it Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly. Attend progress/project meetings & 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 & site management team Distribute regular look ahead programmes Ensure an as-built programme is available at project closedown Maintain knowledge of site processes & costs Record the effects of changes on site & the effects on the contract programme Assist with the monthly progress report in line with customer requirements Build & maintain relationships with the Senior Planning Manager, Project Manager, Commercial team & client representatives Assist with the administration of Primavera P6 planning software Deliver planning software training to new users when required Experience: Essential: Experience in planning of civil, M&E design and delivery projects as a contractor Knowledge of current HSE practices & CSCS card holder Experience of working with NEC3/4 contracts Competent in the use of Microsoft software & application Proficient in use of Primavera P6 planning software Excellent communication skills Ability to identify risks & opportunities Able to work in a fast-paced environment Comfortable working to tight deadlines Desirable: Water/wastewater Industry experience Site based engineering background Professional qualification Current Water Hygiene card holder (training available) Familiar with contract management software such as CEMAR and Aconnex NEC3/4 contractual experience. Package includes: A competitive salary Car/car allowance (subject to role and level of position) 25 days holiday Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy) Contribution Pension scheme Life Assurance Health Insurance Private medical Insurance And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, kids pass etc. Key Words: Planning Engineer Planner Project Planner Senior Planner Senior Planning Engineer Senior Project Planner Construction Project Programmes P6 Programmes Project Delivery Project Plans Water Industry Water Sector Water Treatment Clean Water Sewage Wastewater Waste Water Utilities Highways Power Energy Nuclear Energy from Waste Rail Infrastructure Primavera P6 Severn Trent Water Anglian Water Staffordshire Water United Utilities Veolia AMP 7 AMP 8 NEC