Planning Manager

England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

We're looking for a Planning Manager to join our Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks team based Nationwide

Location: Nationwide - Hybrid working is available, however this will need to be balanced with the needs of the business

Contract: Permanent, full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

Our Environment business unit is working with the Canal & River Trust, The Mining Remediation Authority (formerly known as The Coal Authority) and Severn Trent Water on a number of capital projects and frameworks. The works are a mixture of maintenance and management work along the UK's 2000 miles of navigable canals and rivers, works mitigating the effects of past mining activities and reservoir enhancement schemes. Due to an increased workload, we have an exciting opportunity for a Planning Manager to join our team. This role will suit someone with small to medium scale civil engineering infrastructure project or portfolio experience, in the NEC contract environment.

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Planning Manager to join our NRNN business unit. You'll manage a team of planners to deliver all programme and project controls outputs for a portfolio of works.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Being the programme and planning conscience on a portfolio of water asset management works
• Contribute as a planning and programme subject matter expert
• Coach, mentor and manage a diverse planning team, working to identify individuals strengths and weaknesses, ensuring that development plans are put in place
• Review, and where required, produce programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, project controls dashboards, reports and programme narratives, from 1st principles
• Support the commercial team to ensure accurate forecasts, with reference to programme, are produced
  
  
  

What are we looking for?

This Planning Manager is great for you if you have:

• Must have NEC contract-based Planning experience within heavy civil engineering contracts.
• Must have a full driving licence.
• Strong 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 Microsoft Project and Primavera P6.
  
  
  

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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