Senior Planner in Newport, Wales

Equans Data Centers are seeking to appoint a Senior Planner to be based on a project site in Newport/West Drayton to assist the delivery of our projects. The Senior Planner will provide a professional planning service in every stage of the project lifecycle from tender, through to design, construction and commissioning, ensuring all activities are captured and supporting project teams.

What you will deliver

• Provide planning services as a key part of the project team ensuring the teams are delivering on project time objectives.
• Understand for each project the level of planning service and anticipated time allocation to provide that service.
• Identify, communicate and manage project risks, collaborating with the team to solve any issues or problems.
• Build strong internal and external relationships with the Planning department and broader project and client teams.
• Communicate with other disciplines within production teams to ensure they are aware of their roles in meeting the programme.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures and planning standards.
• Provide detailed and accurate regular progress reporting to the project team and client as required.
• Summarise project status upstream to senior management, highlighting any unresolved major risks and potential overruns.
• Manage time and workload to ensure deadlines are met, highlighting any potential work overload or slackening to Line Manager as soon as it becomes apparent.
• Review processes to enhance planning best practice that can aid and improve performance and consistency across the project teams and wider planning community.
• Lead programme meetings and react quickly to any client-led changes, ensuring that there are auditable trails.
• Form robust links with all key stakeholders by working closely with senior managers and directors.
• Review projects that have deviated from plan and provide advice on plans and strategy, subsequent cause and effect and contribute to decisions as to the best way forward.

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary and car or car allowance.
• 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays).
• Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary.
• Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover).
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year.
• Broad range of learning opportunities, including professional qualifications, collective/individual training and personalised support programmes.
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme.
• Access to growing employee networks including AccessAbility, Encompass, RISE, WOMEN TOGETHER, Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and access to a mental wellbeing app.

Who are we looking for

• Experience of construction projects across a broad range of sectors (bias towards Data Center and the Pharmaceutical (Cleanrooms/laboratories) industries).
• Planning software expertise, preferably in P6 and Asta Powerproject.
• Ability to manage multiple project programmes running in parallel.
• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of a project lifecycle: design, procurement, construction (structure, architecture, M&E services, process) and commissioning.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly and clearly articulate key issues and to listen and capture concerns of others.
• Knowledge of the key features of common forms of contract entered into in the UK.
• Attention to Health and Safety matters.
• Commercially astute.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel for use in dashboard reporting.
• A strategic approach, whilst communicating effectively, making decisions with confidence and getting the best out of others.

Who are we

Equans Data Centers is a strategic data centre partner delivering the whole data centre, providing full general contracting for hyperscaler and colocation data centre projects across Europe, through a single point of contact. Leveraging Bouygues Energies & Services and Equans' experience, we provide expertise in construction and engineering, global standardisation, precision localisation and total control of the supply chain. With more than 1,200 highly skilled employees across 8 European countries, Equans Data Centres has delivered over 400,000m2 of data halls, exceeding 640MW of IT space for major data centres providers such as VIRTUS, Digital Reality, Equinix, Vantage, Stack Infrastructure, Data4 and many others.

As part of our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. Diversity and inclusion are at the core of what we do; if you join Equans, you’ll find a welcoming and open workplace where you’re supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a relocation package with this job role.