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About the role
Job Title: Planning Manager
Location: Motherwell / Inverness / Peterhead / Aberdeen
Project Type: Energy
Company: Balfour Beatty Group Employment Limited (UK).
About Us:
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth.
Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international infrastructure group with a healthy pipeline of work, we're growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.
Join our Regional Scotland team as a Planning Manager to build new futures.
The project is based in Peterhead (North East of Scotland) and from August 2025 you will be expected to be on site minimum 2 days a week. Until then you can work from our Head Office based in Eurocentral (Near Glasgow), Inverness or remotely during the ECI phase.
What you'll be doing
This is a long term (6-8 year) strategic project for someone with experience in civil/earthworks and large-scale complex builds.
Working with the Senior Planning Manager and Head of Operations you will be responsible for implementing project planning procedures, ensuring compliance with the business management system and establish and maintain positive and effective relationships with customers, project team and partners.
You will be responsible for the preparation and monitoring of detailed programmes and programme reporting during both Early Contractor Involvement and Construction Delivery Phases.
This will involve the development of logistic sequences and written submissions (as required) for projects varying in value from £5m to in excess of £100m. You will also develop and maintain the 4D Planning function during the project delivery.
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are essential:
* Substantial experience of planning services within large complex environments within the construction and engineering industry.
* Good experience in the use of planning techniques and the required planning tool-sets;
* Thorough knowledge of Word, Excel and planning software such as Asta and P6;
* Experience of 4D planning.
* Good report writing skills;
* Attention to detail and will see tasks through to completion.
* Good understanding of various forms of tender documents, contract documents and specifications; particularly NEC;
* Good understanding of various methods of planning, programming, and progress monitoring; Good understanding of risk and opportunity management with particular reference to planning/programming.
* Good understanding of the events that initiate, and of the methods used to demonstrate, delay or change entitlement.
* Good understanding of the construction market, methods of construction, plant, equipment and labour requirements;
* Relevant CSCS Card.
The following qualities/experience are desirable:
* A degree, or HND in a relevant subject is desirable, as is Professional membership of one or more of the following: RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE/CIH.
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too.
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. We are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.
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