Commercial Planner

Being a Construction Planner (Airfields and Civils) at London Gatwick, you will be able to see the impact your work has on the ever-changing landscape of the airport and our passengers. This role offers you unique insight and puts you right at the centre of providing a full planning service for the projects you support. From facilities expansion to next-generation security to resurfacing runways, no two days are the same at London Gatwick. The diversity of projects and the unique live environment will be sure to keep you challenged and constantly learning.

To support your journey, you will be provided with the necessary development to ensure you can grow. London Gatwick's Construction Department comprises several programme and project teams and technical support functions. It is accountable for the delivery of the airport CIP and strategic growth over the next 5 years, encompassing projects across the campus to deliver fit for purpose critical infrastructure.

London Gatwick is changing at an outstanding pace and this is an exciting opportunity for a Planner to be part of a high performing team building Gatwick's future infrastructure. The Planner will operate across all stages of the project process, beyond early pioneering stages, across projects up to the value of approximately £50m and play a key role in Gatwick's future, providing a full planning service.

• The Planner will manage schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities.
• Develop and maintain a robust delivery schedule for work activities with clear milestones and monitoring activities to support the project schedule including interdisciplinary constraints or interfaces that define activity sequences.
• Work with the delivery team to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan (programme integrated schedule).
• Perform schedule monitoring, including identifying critical activities and updating functions for specific applications, disciplines, or specialities.
• Assist with the development and implementation requirements for updating and monitoring the schedule.
• Develop and apply installation rates to quantity take offs and developed quantities for assigned projects.
• Review and analyse the contractor's schedules submitted for acceptance and provide the required recommendation to the project team.
• Prepare schedule, staffing, and quantity progress and performance reports for assigned disciplines or specialities.
• Manage contract programme assessment and acceptance/rejection, assessing compensation events and performing delay analysis.
• Review quantity logs to ensure total quantities are represented for assigned projects.
• Assist in the development of the required job hour expenditure for assigned projects.
• Review and analyse contractor's schedules against the GAL baseline, identifying critical path activities and performance variance.

Educated to Degree/Post-Grad level or equivalent in construction or business-related field. Experience (typically associated with three years experience) as a planner on projects with a value typically over £10m highly desirable. Significant experience with Primavera software (P6) and MS Excel. Experience in planning infrastructure projects in a live operational environment is desirable. Experience in performing quantity take-offs, statistical analysis, and computer operations. Understanding of mathematical and financial reports. Understanding of NEC types of contract.

Along with a competitive salary our employees enjoy a range of personal, health and financial benefits, including:

• ~5% Welcome Bonus
• ~ Performance-based bonus scheme
• ~ High street shops and restaurant discounts
• ~ Healthcare scheme
• ~ Life and disability insurance
• ~ Professional training to develop
• ~ Free holiday parking
• ~ Discounted travel to work schemes
• ~ Free on-site parking

At London Gatwick, our people are our biggest asset. We are an organisation that places diversity, equity and inclusion at its heart. To find out more about what it's like to work at London Gatwick, visit our dedicated construction careers site.