Senior Planner

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Natural Resources team, working on projects in the Thames Valley region (North). In this role you'll lead planning to deliver programmes of work within non-infrastructure schemes like upgrades to wastewater treatment works., We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our NRNN business unit. You'll lead the planning to deliver all programme and project controls outputs for a portfolio of works, under IChemE contract conditions. This work is with Thames Water on their sewage treatment Waste Asset Assurance Programme (WAAP). Your day to day will include:

• Being the programming and planning conscience on a water asset management programme of works.
• Reviewing, and where required, producing programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, project controls dashboards, reports and programme narratives, from 1st principles.
• Analysing contract metrics, making improvement recommendations.
• Supporting the commercial team to ensure accurate forecasts, with reference to programme, are produced.
• Reviewing resource loading, and maintaining schedule resources in a Primavera P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work.
  
  Must have NEC / IChemE contract-based Planning experience, within medium to large scale non-infrastructure project or portfolio work.
• Experience of civils and MEICA based projects in the water industry.
• Confidence and experience of managing a planning team.
• Good understanding of commercial and contractual matters and thorough experience and understanding of programming techniques.
• Competency in the use of Primavera P6.
  
  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.
  
  Contract: Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know