Building & Civils Planner

Salary: £54,000 – £66,000 per year

Belcan Workforce Solutions are currently looking for 2 Building and Civils Planners for a Defence establishment in Reading. The post is for an estimated 12-18 month contract and is paying competitively on a daily basis.

Successful applicants will be required to be Security Cleared prior to appointment and must meet eligibility requirements to obtain UK Security Clearance.

The position has been deemed Outside of IR35.

Description:

The site based role is to work under the supervision of the lead planner and specific work package manager to develop a detailed delivery & procurement schedule for external Civils Works on a major M&E fit out project.

The project is within a highly regulated industry and has a programme duration of c. 18 months.

Skills / Qualifications:

• in Building and civils, project or construction management, or equivalent vocational training and experience is desirable,
• Member of an appropriate professional body is desirable (ACostE, APM etc. MICE etc.),
• Undertake planning verification of Supply chain activities and verify claimed monthly progress and YE progress
• An ability to work in a partnering environment with the client
• Previous site experience in delivering projects to programme
• Understand Planning and Construction processes and be able to recommend methods of construction and able to seek opportunities and problem solve with the design & engineering team and supply chain to identify programme and production opportunities.
• Ability to integrate with M&E, General Building and complex Plant work packages to achieve programme
• Experienced in the implementation and use of earned value analysis (schedule and performance management)
• Strong knowledge and understanding of use of planning tools & techniques
• Proficient with Primavera P6 in an Enterprise environment
• Skilled in progress interrogation and scrutiny of / challenging contractor schedules
• Close working with supply chain / internal project managers to develop / improve logic sequence
• Experience of Developing WBS / OBS and development of schedules from limited information
• Experience of Critical Path Analysis / late starts early starts / finishes
• Understanding and interpreting Float Erosion and Critical activities
• Managing Baselines
• Development of What-if scenarios for exploring sequence effects on the schedule
• Ability to interpret project documentation

Working days: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working hours: 08:00 – 18:00 10.00hrs

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan