Planning Manager Watford Permanent Salary + Package The Planning Manager will support the Head of Planning within the Pre-Construction Planning team. They will lead the development and production of a tender programmes and supporting information; ensuring it complies with the Contract and Works Information. Duties * Manage the planning on the tender to produce the plan and programme for submission. * Communicate the plan to everyone involved including external stakeholders. * Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction. * Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register. * Communicate and gain approval from the bid/project team, the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan utilizing visual aids and graphics developed from concept and detailed drawings. * Liaise and negotiate with suppliers communicating proposed methods and sequence. * Assist the bid team to evaluate supply chain quotations/methodologies that relate to programme. * Manage the resource and cost loading of the programmes in liaison with the Estimating team to produce a commercial forecast if required. Person Specification * The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years’ experience since graduation on civil engineering projects. * Able to digest high level of in...