Graduate Planner in Bath

Planning plays a key role in delivering any type of project, supporting the team in identifying the activities needed to deliver and manage the scope, estimate the activities duration and effort, identify who is best to deliver each activity, assess progress, and identify possible risks and issues. As a Graduate Planning Engineer, you will be responsible for providing planning support, working with the project team to develop and manage programmes of work.

About The Project

Costain has won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by Northumbrian Water to the Living Water Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme with contracts valued up to c.£670 m to Costain over 15 years.

Graduate Development Programme

The programme will focus on helping you to grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and technical skills you will learn day‐to‐day on the job. It is delivered in a variety of formats throughout the 2 years and will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond. We expect graduates to rotate after a period of 8‐12 months to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company. Our line managers are fully supportive and will be involved in helping you along the way. In addition, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership. Graduates may have the opportunity to work on a number of exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2‐year period, in sectors including nuclear, highways, rail, water, airports and tunnels.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the project plan, capture assumptions and identify dependencies.
• Contribute towards the development of work breakdown and monitoring strategy.
• Identify project resource requirements through the application of project planning techniques.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure plans are comprehensive.
• Gather information from project teams and stakeholders and produce basic project performance reports.
• Integrate 3rd‐party schedules and data into the overall project plan.
• Regularly interface and integrate with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project Plan.
• Develop skills in new software, including Primavera (P6).

Essential

• An interest in the industry.
• Good IT literacy.
• Willingness to learn with appropriate instruction.
• Good communication skills.
• Organised individual who can work well to a deadline.

Desirable

• Previous knowledge of planning activities.
• Excellent MS Office skills.
• Minimum of HNC/HND ideally in a planning discipline or relevant experience.
• APM Project Fundamentals.

Qualifications

• Good result in a relevant Engineering Field (Civil / Mechanical / Electrical) degree or similar.
• IT proficient, including MS Word and Excel.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Analytical and problem‐solving skills.
• Excellent at building and maintaining positive relationships with all people, regardless of their background.
• Willingness to learn.
• Excellent organisation and time‐management skills.
• Ability to thrive under pressure.
• Ability to empathize and communicate.

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading‐edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company.

Disability Confident employer: we will offer an interview to any applicant who discloses a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job.