Our Planners all come from a site background as this role involves using your site experience to provide support to site teams in finding solutions to engineering problems, ensuring that project programmes are current, consistent and accurate by regular interface with the project site management and relevant regional management team. The primary role is to prepare and communicate project programmes and to manage change on the programmes in accordance with the NEC contract requirements.
Key Responsibilities
1. At least monthly, forensically review each project programme, ensuring change is being captured and appropriately recorded.
2. Ensure that programmes are regularly updated to meet contractual requirements, as-built records, and progress. Review two-weekly look-ahead programmes.
3. Review site records including contractual notices and communications in relation to programme matters. Ensure programme submissions and acceptance are contractually compliant.
4. Review project change register in parallel with the works delivered and the contract.
5. Review the project risk & opportunities register.
6. Review/facilitate entitlement not previously captured by the site team.
7. Assist the site team to contractually protect programme entitlement and facilitate EOT claims.
8. Provide advice and assistance on planning, programming, methods of construction, and solutions to engineering problems.
9. Where necessary, support project teams and communicate with the client to recover change.
Skills Required
The ideal candidate will have a wide experience of working on civil engineering sites with an engineering or site management background. The role may suit someone who has reached Site Agent or PM level who possesses planning expertise and wants to focus more on this technical role moving forward.
We’re after someone with good communication skills who has experience with MS Project, Asta Powerproject, or Primavera P6. The successful candidate will also have experience managing construction programmes using the NEC form of contract and have highways experience.
This is a site-based and/or regional office-based role focusing on our work in Kent and Sussex, with a requirement to travel to sites in the south east region.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
Benefits Package
* Life assurance cover (4x annual salary)
* Company pension scheme (we match up to 8%)
* 25 days holiday (pro rata) plus bank holidays (with an option of buying more holiday)
* Extensive training programmes
* Employee Assistance Programme and Employee benefits platform
* Free on-site parking
* Company social calendar, regular fun days, and a broad range of charity events
* The Great Escape = leaving work early every Friday!
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Please send us your CV and a covering letter.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within two weeks, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.
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