Senior Planner

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

12/17/2024

We're looking for a Senior Construction Planner to join our North West regional build business, the role can be aligned with Liverpool or Manchester offices and will work collaboratively across the North West region as a whole.

Location: Manchester / Liverpool, North West Region

Hours: 37.5 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Planner, you will be involved in a wide range of projects that can range in value from £10M - £100M + . You will provide planning expertise in from tender stage through to onsite delivery and project completion with involvement of full lifecycle.

Your day to day will include, but not be limited to:

Tender / Pre Construction

• In collaboration with senior personnel discuss options, sequence, and methodology, investigate and recommend alternative and innovative solutions with change impact assessment
• Analyse Tender documents and identify required planning responses
• Chair and minute programme, logistic and delivery workshops, assess programme and delivery risks and recommend mitigation
• Support and contribute to the tender quality submission with written responses to
• Provide planning input to the tender submission primarily a whole life programme, logistics plan and method statement, provide a planning handover pack for the delivery team
  
  
  

Construction Phase

• Monitor and update progress and undertake regular progress monitoring drop lines.
• Develop ideas to drive improvement and consistency in the timely delivery of 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.
• Work 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 hold relevant construction or engineering qualification (HND Level Min)
• Are expert in the Use of Asta Power Project and / or Primavera software
• You can demonstrate strong knowledge of NEC and JCT Contract Conditions
• You hold a 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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier