Senior Planner Civil Engineering

Our client is one of Scotland's top construction companies and civil engineering contractors, with headquarters in Glasgow and operating across the Central Belt, Southern and Northern Scotland.

They are now looking to recruit an experienced civils orientated Planner and/or Senior Planner for substation, roads/highways, infrastructure, earthworks and drainage projects in the Central Belt and North of Scotland.

Solid civils planning experience of Substations, Roadworks/Highways and/or Structures, Earthworks and Drainage would be highly beneficial

As the successful Senior Planner, you will have extensive substation, highways, civils and infrastructure experience.

You should ideally have a main contractor background with similar civil engineering involvement

Role Overview:

Take the lead on all planning aspects during the preparation of tenders. Working with estimators, buyers, design staff, contract personnel and submissions team to prepare well considered and competitive tender programmes and methodologies associated with bid submissions. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparation of tender programmes for major transportation projects
• Fully resource and cost load programmes where required
• Close liaison with estimating team to support pricing, preliminaries and temporary works 
• Liaison with operational and design staff to derive effective methodologies
• Challenge solutions to determine optimum programme durations
• Define sequence, resource requirements and outputs for programming
• Establish programme critical path and identify programme risks
• Presentation of programme to Directors at tender settlement
• Provide detailed hand over to site team and obtain ongoing feedback throughout project life

Key requirements for the role include:

• Good experience of planning software including Primavera P6
• Civil Engineer with good recent experience of tendering in the civils, highways or substation/energy sector
• Minimum Qualification HND Civil Engineering 
• Excellent knowledge of methodologies, outputs and resource requirements for major highways and structures
• Challenging and innovative
• Ability to write clear method statements for tender submission 
• Good presentation skills
• Team player