Planner of Works #Water
TES Group Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Job Title: Planner of Works
Reporting to: Operations Director
Location: Cookstown HQ
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Negotiable
Key Responsibilities
* Programme Development & Management: Create, manage, and maintain detailed project schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, ensuring compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
* Resource Planning: Allocate and optimise labour, plant, and material resources to meet project demands and improve productivity.
* Monitoring & Reporting: Track progress against baseline programmes, highlight risks and delays and provide accurate progress reports, forecasts, recovery plans, and Earned Value analysis to management, clients, and stakeholders.
* Coordination & Communication: Collaborate with design, engineering, commercial, and construction teams, as well as contractors and sub-contractors, to ensure programmes are realistic, integrated, and achievable.
* Risk & Change Management: Assess the impact of design or scope changes, perform time-risk analysis, and develop effective mitigation strategies.
* Contract Compliance: Ensure planning practices comply with NEC contract principles, company standards, and industry best practice.
* Software Utilisation: Apply advanced skills in MS Project and Primavera P6 to manage schedules, dependencies, critical paths, resource/cost loading, and reporting outputs.
* Tender Support: Produce tender programmes and contribute to bid deliverables to support business development.
Essential Criteria
* Hold a relevant qualification in an engineering discipline.
* Demonstrated experience as a Project Planner/Planner of Works within the construction and engineering sectors.
* Strong understanding of the full project lifecycle, including design, delivery, and commissioning.
* Experienced in MS Project and Primavera P6, skilled in preparing and managing detailed project schedules, reports, and presentations, and able to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
* Experience in the water treatment sector or a closely connected industry.
* Working knowledge of NEC, FIDIC, and CECA contract mechanisms would be advantageous.
* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a track record of successful collaboration across diverse stakeholders.
What we offer
* Competitive salary.
* 30 days holidays per year.
* Private Health Insurance.
* Death in Service benefit.
* Professional development opportunities.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution
Closing Date: 31st October 2025 5pm
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