Job Description
Brief Outline:
Our client, an established full building envelope contractor, specialising in roofing, cladding, glazing and maintenance is looking for a Planner.
About the client:
Our client is a national, full building envelope contractor, specialising in roofing, cladding, glazing and supporting clients from the early design stage to the construction and throughout the buildings' life cycle.
About the Role:
* Collaborate within the team to support all project planning activities.
* Prepare project-specific programmes for inclusion in tender submissions.
* Contribute to the preparation of initial project plans, phasing, coordination, and sequencing for project tender programmes.
* Ensure accurate and efficient planning to meet tender submission requirements.
* Work with the tender, pre-construction and delivery teams on a range of opportunities and live projects by collaboratively developing and maintaining robust detailed project plans.
* Prepare project specific programmes for inclusion within the Tender submission.
* Establish optimal construction methodologies, logic sequences & working outputs by producing programmes for review and preparing logistics proposal.
* Assist the Operations teams with tracking changes and progress on live projects where required to take into account delays, site progression and commercial impact.
* Visit sites, attend progress meetings, monitor progress and assist to update short term plans and construction programmes.
* Learn to communicate and quantify the effects of progress on key dates.
* Promote a partnership ethos within the Pre-Construction department of estimating and Planning as well as Operations teams by developing and maintaining close working relationships both internally and with external client’s team.
About the Candidate:
* Knowledge / Experience of project planning systems and software such as Microsoft Project (desirable) and Asta Powerproject.
* Experience within the construction industry or related industry (preferable).
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Good standard of general IT literacy; proficient in use of Word and Excel.
* Good basic standard of general literacy and numeracy.
* Able to communicate with team members and departments to either relay or gather information, and to assist with preparing reports and updating information on site.
Benefits :
* Competitive salary.
* Training and professional development opportunities.
* Supportive work environment with access to tools and resources for growth.