Planner

Carmichael are seeking an experienced Planner with all round civils experience to join the team in Walsall.

Key Responsibilities

General

• Proactively support the estimating and delivery teams to ensure that planning standards are maintained across all projects and planning & control procedures are adhered to
• Assisting with the tender, pre-construction, and delivery of a range of opportunities and live projects by collaboratively developing and maintaining robust, detailed project plans
• Assisting with establishing optimal construction methodologies, logic sequences and work outputs
• Appreciating and upholding the Health & Safety standards in all planning processed
• Developing animations of the project plan to aid in the digital rehearsal of the project construction
• Supporting the review of tender programmes and their compliance
• Fostering the planning culture with a great focus on weekly planning updates and reviews of performance
• Monitoring the critical path and key milestones, advising the delivery team on any potential changes and leading challenge and mitigation actions
• Supporting the preparation of reports and updates of information displayed on sites in line with the reporting cycles
• Ensuring that claimable delays are captured and quantified
• Supporting the development of programmes to demonstrate the impact of change in compliance with the contractual and project-specific requirements
• Advising Operations and Commercial of project risks, float uptake and impacts on the

• Essential: 
• CSCS Card
• Good understanding of construction sequencing and how a project comes together, gained in a site-level role for a contractor in the UK construction industry
• Good knowledge of NEC and other relevant forms of contract
• Experience in leading collaborative planning processes
• Proficient in Primavera P6/Primavera Cloud and competent in MS Project
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences