Senior / Lead Planner

We are currently seeking a Senior / Lead Regional Planner to work for a major civil engineering contractor on a multi million pound civil infrastructure schemes across the SW region

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established, award winning contractor, with continuous success over a number of years with a solid order book.

This is a hybrid role with a mix of Home / site and regional office working

The ideal candidate should fit the below criteria:

• Main contract experience

• Progressed from an engineering background (Site Engineer, Section Engineer, Agent etc)

• Solid understanding of ASTA, P6, MS planning software

• experience working on civil related projects

• At least three years planning experience, with a further number of years experience on site

• Progressed from and Engineering background

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Support the successful delivery of fully logically linked programmes that comply with the planning standard and client requirements.

• Provide input into project risk registers.

• Develop design and build programmes with detailed WBS structures and fully coded activities to support both Amco and Client progress reporting.

• Develop and maintain excellent communication relationships with internal and external customers to gather progress information for project /programme updates.

• Continuously monitor programmes to ensure they are updated to accurately reflect progress and reflect the revised forecast of the works and compare to baseline

• Provide regular feedback and reports on the status of the projects to the project delivery team.

• Provide sufficient detail on materials and plant to ensure the procurement teams have early visibility of the project requirements.

• Provide sufficient resource information to ensure any recruitment requirements are identified in a suitable timescale.

• Ensure the programme covers all the contractual key milestones.

• Participate in the continuous improvement of the planning and delivery teams to support successful project delivery.

• Act as an ambassador for the company with suppliers, stakeholders, customers and the public.

• Support the successful delivery of the business lifesaving rules