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View more categories View less categories Sector Project and Program Management Role Senior Executive Contract Type Permanent Hours Full Time
Are you an experienced Project Planner looking to join a rewarding team?
If you have a background in programming, planning reporting, feedback, and mitigation measures, this opportunity is for you!
You will be a key part of the team at the Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction, developing manufacture plans and schedules for a number of high profile projects.
The role involves developing and maintaining programmes, project control, accurate reporting, and forecasting. Reporting to the Project Planning Lead and Contracts Manager, you will be responsible for developing programmes from the concept stage, reviewing manufacture forecasts and liaising directly with projects for progressing and forecasting updates.
What will the role look like?
- Provide leadership for the planning and coordination processes.
- To implement and maintain the requirements of the Factory Business Plan.
- Ensure that all programmes are compliant with project requirements.
- Develop and agree by collaboration a logical sequence of events ensuring that the most economical/advantageous manufacture and construction strategy is adopted.
- Analyse performance and advise the project team of likely impact and recommend improvements.
- Ensure that the manufacture strategy and any recommended improvements are communicated.
- Co-ordinate for stakeholders, partners and supply chain all time-related information.
- Represent the project/business with all stakeholders.
- Undertake additional responsibilities and tasks as required by the project/business.
- Develop and feedback process improvement.
- Proactive interaction with other departments
- Developing knowledge of strategic planning and project/ programme management systems
What skills & experience are we looking for?
- Project/ programme controls
- Project management systems and techniques
- Contract planning
- Pre-contract planning and work control
- P6 and Asta Powerproject Planning Software
Qualification
- HNC / Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering or similar sector-related.
- CIOB Membership
- Developing relationships with clients\’ representatives
- Contribution to pre-contact planning, work winning, and processes.
Don\’t match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O\’Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O\’Rourke\’s story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the \’Offer an interview scheme\’. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email
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Company
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O\’Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O\’Rourke\’s story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O\’Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”
– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer
Our Origin Story:
Diversity & Inclusion:
Laing O\’Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.
Laing O\’Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES
Laing O\’Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.
The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.
Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.
Support for Disabled Employees:
- LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
- LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
- Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
- LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
- LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.
Sustainability:
In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:
- To be a net zero company by 2050
- By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff
Rewards andBenefits:
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
- Health and Wellbeing
- Virtual GP
- Health Assessment (Age 50+)
- Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 5 days leave extra can be purchased
- Employee Discounts
- Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade
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