Planner

My clients are looking to appoint a Planner on a permanent basis to be based at their regional office in Leeds. My clients projects include housing, extra care & retirement living projects.

The successful candidate will need to successfully produce, monitor and update the programmes for a number of these concurrent projects at various stages from concept, through design to construction
They will assist in the preparation of short-term programmes to meet interim objectives working with the contracts and site malmanagement teams. The successful candidate will work as part of the pre-construction team in preparation of tender programmes, logistic plans, qualitive responses and ensure NEC Contract Programme compliance

Principal accountabilities of the role include:

- Ability to handle information from multiple projects and sites
- Produce logically linked programmes, and sub routines, from first principles, identifying all contractual & key dates, milestones, resources, and critical path
- Liaise with design teams and other partners and engage with specialist supply chain partners to understand their outputs and programme sequencing
- Assist in the production of other associated material, e.g. phasing plans, site, and traffic management layouts
- Visit and liaise with various design and/or construction teams to obtain progress information
- Assist project teams, where required, to produce target programmes and to drive these to completion
- Also assist project teams to produce their weekly and other short-term programmes
- Attend various meetings, both internally and externally e.g., progress, design
- Monitor, update and review programmes as required, to meet the operational, contractual, and commercial needs of each project, including progress and change management
- Be prepared to question the information provided and if necessary present alternative viewpoints for consideration by project teams and senior management
- Report progress on a regular basis
- Produce any supporting data that may be necessary for tracking & reporting progress, e.g. histograms, production graphs
- Identify & consider areas of programme risk and opportunity and advise the project team and senior management as appropriate
- Produce as built programmes
- Produce entitlement / delay & disruption programmes to enable the commercial team to reach financial agreements
- Produce programme commentaries or other narratives that may be required as programmes are issued
- Issue programmes to comply with internal and Client requirements and maintain registers and other records to suit
- Report and feedback other information that may be required to assist in monitoring projects and production of databases

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

- Previous planning experience, preferably gained with a main contractor on projects up to £25m
- Experience in working across various types of residential construction projects
- A thorough understanding of construction methods, processes and techniques and the outputs that can be achieved
- Proficient in Asta Powerproject (MS Project also useful)
- Experience of the NEC contract and other common construction contracts such as ICE & JCT
- Good commercial awareness
- The ability to think logically is essential, as is the ability to work in a fast and accurate manner to achieve deadlines
- Ability to use MS Office package