Job Description

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Senior Planner (Sizewell C)
Kier
Sizewell C

Key Tasks and Accountabilities

• Lead the planning to deliver all programme and project controls outputs under an NEC contract
• Construct and manage the production and implementation of the fully integrated master programme, phase sequence plans of the project.
• Produce programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, weekly lookaheads, project controls dashboards, reports, and programme narratives.
• Analyse project metrics, in particular rates of work to ensure key programme dates can be tracked with accuracy and displayed in project dashboards, making improvement recommendations.
• Support the commercial team to produce accurate forecasts to the end of project based on labour resource and materials forecasting with reference to programme.
• Accurately resource load, level and maintain schedule resources in a P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work.
• Support earned value analysis of the project.
• Update and monitor progress within a programme against contract requirements.
• Contribute and support operational teams on use of collaborative planning, risk, and commercial issues.
• Evaluate supply chain and subcontract programmes.
• Comply with business processes and systems.
• Undertake analytical assessment of programmes.
• Establish and maintain internal and external project controls reporting.
• Develop the content and structure for tender programmes as required.

Diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing

• Contribute to the wellbeing of your team and ensure that an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought, backgrounds and experience is actively encouraged and achieved.
• This profile is not exhaustive. From time to time, you may be required by the company to perform other tasks, which are not included in the above description, but are within your capabilities and, where necessary, training, and full support will be given.

Essential Requirements

• Must have NEC contract-based planning experience.
• Must be familiar with reinforced concrete frame building techniques/methodologies.
• Must have previous planning experience, and an excellent working knowledge of Planning Software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous construction experience, across a wide range of engineering projects, with a good understanding of commercial and contractual matters.
• A clear ability for logical thinking and working methodically.
• Thorough experience and understanding of programming techniques.
• A sound knowledge of typical production rates.
• Competency in the use of Primavera P6.
• The ability to work to defined, often challenging, timescales.
• Contribute to a bid-winning strategy for tenders.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships on projects and interface with operational teams.
• The ability to support the commercial teams on projects, deal directly with clients.
• Take ownership and contribute to planning, programme and risk from tender through to project completion.
• Experienced in preparing visual management reports using PowerBi (or similar) as the reporting platform.
• Member of professional institution, such as CIOB or ICE or working towards

Collaborative - We enjoy what we do and work closely with clients and stakeholders to reach innovative solutions. Working together is vital in the role to help build effective relationships across teams, clients and stakeholders.
Trusted - We deliver what we promise. We act safely and ethically and care about the environment and communities we work in at all times.
Focused - We are clear in our approach. We are disciplined and thorough in how we work and deliver for our clients and customers.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.