Senior Planner (Sizewell C)

Senior Planner (Sizewell C)
Kier
Sizewell C

Key Tasks and Accountabilities

• Lead the planning to deliver all programme and project controls outputs under an NEC contract
• Construct and manage the production and implementation of the fully integrated master programme, phase sequence plans of the project
• Produce programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, weekly lookaheads, project controls dashboards, reports, and programme narratives
• Analyse project metrics, in particular rates of work to ensure key programme dates can be tracked with accuracy and displayed in project dashboards, making improvement recommendations
• Support the commercial team to produce accurate forecasts to the end of project based on labour resource and materials forecasting with reference to programme
• Accurately resource load, level and maintain schedule resources in a P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work
• Support earned value analysis of the project
• Update and monitor progress within a programme against contract requirements
• Contribute and support operational teams on use of collaborative planning, risk, and commercial issues
• Evaluate supply chain and subcontract programmes
• Comply with business processes and systems
• Undertake analytical assessment of programmes
• Establish and maintain internal and external project controls reporting
• Develop the content and structure for tender programmes as required

Qualifications

• Must have NEC contract-based planning experience
• Must be familiar with reinforced concrete frame building techniques/methodologies
• Must have previous planning experience, and an excellent working knowledge of Planning Software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Previous construction experience, across a wide range of engineering projects, with a good understanding of commercial and contractual matters
• A clear ability for logical thinking and working methodically
• Thorough experience and understanding of programming techniques
• A sound knowledge of typical production rates
• Competency in the use of Primavera P6
• The ability to work to defined, often challenging, timescales
• Contribute to a bid-winning strategy for tenders
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships on projects and interface with operational teams
• The ability to support the commercial teams on projects, deal directly with clients
• Take ownership and contribute to planning, programme and risk from tender through to project completion
• Experienced in preparing visual management reports using PowerBi (or similar) as the reporting platform
• Member of professional institution, such as CIOB or ICE or working towards

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community