Senior Planner

My client is a leading UK contractor and due to growth and expansion they are in the market for a senior planner. The duties for the senior planner are as listed below:

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIE:

To provide Planning expertise in a number of projects, development, maintain and accurately reporting of the project Programme to Head of Planning and Project team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

A clear understanding of responsibilities and demonstrates appropriate behaviours in line with the Company’s environmental, health, safety, security, quality and ethics standards.

Ensure that each aspect of the project is robustly planned, programmed to the appropriate level of detail, taking advice, knowledge and experience from each team member and subsequently communicated in a clear transparent manner.

Ensure progress against the plan is monitored, filed and analysed in a weekly and monthly basis.

Providing proactive, accurate and decision making schedule analysis to executive level management enabling them to provide decisions that positively impacts the Programme schedule position.

Acting as member of senior leadership that provides on going decisions and direction to stir the Programme to deliver on time, on cost and technical compliance products to the client.

Provision of Planning for peer reviews as appropriate.

Undertaking other duties as reasonably required from time to time by line and task management.

Thinks commercially, focuses on activities that will deliver real value for the projects.

TEAM AND BACKGROUND OF THEM:

Standalone role reporting in to the managers and supporting and reporting in to Senior Project Manager on site

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge and understanding of Residential projects, fit-out and commissioning.

Good experience in implementing best practice Planning processes and tools (e.g. Asta) in a complex, project environment.

Knowledge and understanding of forms of contract.

Knowledge and experience of analysing critical path and schedule risk.

Degree in appropriate construction or technical discipline and a proven level of experience

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