Senior Planner

We have an excellent opportunity for a Construction Planner to join our North West business based out of our Manchester office. The construction planner will work closely with project teams, bid teams and pre construction carrying out a wide range of duties assisting in developing realistic target construction programmes from tender stages, retaining an overall monitoring capacity for complex projects to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with project needs and generally offering subject matter expertise on planning elements from tender stage through to delivery, Your day to day will be varied but may 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 and work closely with Project teams to assist in the production of accurate progress reports.
  
  You are an experienced operator of Planning software - Primavera P6/ Asta or Microsoft Project.
• You have experience working on build tenders and live projects with a main contractor environment.
• You have knowledge of JCT and NEC Contract conditions.
• Excellent communication skills, able to work across teams in an advisory capacity and collaborate across departments.
• Highly organised and able to work to multiple deadlines across multiple concurrent projects.
  
  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.