Planner

To support our continued growth, Willmott Dixon are currently looking to recruit a Planner to join our London & East construction business. We deliver projects across multiple sectors within north London, the northern home counties and East Anglia. This will be a hybrid role which will require a presence in our Hitchin office 3 days per week.

The Planner will work with the preconstruction and site teams to produce realistic, de-risked programmes, on time and to the highest quality. You will collaborate with our wider preconstruction team and supply chain partners to ensure that you provide an accurate programme in line with the customer's requirements, project scope and current legislation. The Planner will ensure that the service and standards we provide place customer value at the forefront of delivering a quality product and service.

The role will involve some of the following:

• Completing the planning process with commercial acumen and skill.
• Preparing and completing a planning report that highlights the key planning and programme dates for the project.
• Create planning commentaries and method statements that articulate a comprehensive understanding of our approach and execution of the project.
• Monitor programmes regularly and advise the tender bid team of the progress position.
• Advise the tender bid team of the programme and the logistical effect of any design change.
• Prepare preconstruction and construction programmes that are auditable and based upon known outputs and sequences or have been informed by liaison with our supply chain.
• Produce site logistics plans that are clear and understandable and demonstrate that a thorough and robust approach to planning has been adopted.
• Actively seek opportunities for alternative construction methods, including MMC, innovation and value engineering, and share these with the tender team.
• Ensure that our work is in line with the company's sustainability objectives.

Essential criteria:

• Good demonstrable standard of written and spoken English.
• Good standard of mathematical ability.
• Appropriate CSCS card.

Desirable criteria:

• Minimum relevant level 4 qualification (HNC/NVQ4 etc).
• Working towards MCIOB.
• Site experience.

Personal Qualities:

• Analytical skills: able to breakdown larger projects into smaller sections.
• Mathematical: accurate planning involves complex calculations for quantities, outputs, and durations.
• Attention to detail: determining logical construction sequences.
• Communication skills: ability to explain complex ideas clearly, share information and contribute to internal and external meetings.

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability confident employer.

Benefits: In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full / heavily discounted private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.

Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe's 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.