Assistant Planner / Coordinator

Duties
Providing outline programmes for feasibility studies. Taking into account site constraints and logistics. Liaising with divisional directors and land department on the submission of bids for new sites.
Assist the commercial department develop procurement programmes and collate trends on lead in periods. Carry out research into new systems and construction techniques in conjunction with Technical and other departments
Assist the Construction Director with early site activities such as utilities co-ordination, demolition, highways permissions, temporary works, crane and general logistics strategies
Produce, monitor and track where required, design development programmes and schedules. Attend meetings at the design development stage to provide details on information requirements with consultants.
The Candidate
Assist with development of information release and collaboration systems.
Project managers are responsible for the production of a project programme that will be monitored against for the duration of the project. The planning manager will be responsible for assisting in the production of this and the review of all the associated back up programmes. These will comprise of Project target programmes for individual blocks or phases and internal sequence records.
The construction sites produce a weekly report against the project programme. The planner will assist in the monitoring of these reports and support the teams with targeted detail programming where necessary. Monitor progress on sites on a monthly basis and develop methods of improving performance against programme with the site teams where necessary.
Provide support to the site teams in dealing with key utility suppliers in their general relationship with the client, particularly for main supply and diversion issues. Assist Construction and other departments in the successful handover of these services for billing arrangements.
Benefits
Great Benefits