Kier Construction have an exciting opening for a Senior Construction Planner to join our Leeds based business unit.
Location: Leeds
Hours: Full Time, Permanent, Part Time / Flexible Considered
The Senior Planner will be a key part of the regional team working closely with stakeholders across disciplines at both pre construction and delivery phase to develop realistic target construction programmes from tender stages and retain overall monitoring capacity for complex projects to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with developing project needs.
What will you be responsible for in the role of Senior Planner?
No two days ill be the same and you will be involved in a range of projects at various stages, whilst the list is not exhaustive, your day to day will include:
* All aspects of planning, phasing, programming and sequencing for our tendering activity, including the coordination of design, commercial and production activities into one truly Integrated Programme.
* Creating of look ahead programmes, individual trade package programmes, monitor and update progress and undertake regular progress monitoring drop lines.
* Developing ideas to drive improvement and consistency in the timely delivery of our preconstruction preferred bids and our live projects.
* Supporting and mentoring project leads to ensure they have the technical software skills to produce their own regular look ahead programmes.
* Advise on affect of any project slippage on existing programmes and update accordingly, working closely with Project teams to assist in the production of accurate progress reports.
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Planner is great for you if:
* You are an experienced operator of Planning software - Primavera P6/ Asta or Microsoft Project.
* Demonstrable experience working on build tenders and live projects with a main contractor
* Strong knowledge of NEC and JCT Contract Conditions and how this effects the planning of projects
* Good construction technical knowledge across relevant work packages
* Full UK Driving license
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here .
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here .
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