Planner

As a Senior Planner, you'll be working within the Rail & Aviation Planning Team, planning and programming for large or complex rail infrastructure and associated buildings projects. This may consist of a portfolio of smaller projects and may also involve managing planners who provide support with these schemes. You'll be a strategic thinker who's fully competent in the use of Primavera with robust logic and good schedule integrity, understanding how to resource and cost load programmes.

Your day to day will include:

-Producing contract programmes, period updates, change programmes and associated narrative reports

-Ensuring compliance to NEC4 Contract Conditions within the programme and keeping the project manager regularly informed of any slippage and movement

-Production and obtaining client approval of Risk programmes (QSRA), working with risk software

-Ensuring all change is correctly captured in the programmes in line with NEC timescales

-Supporting and developing Planners and Assistant Planners within the team

You have relevant qualifications at degree level, or equivalent experience

-You have significant experience of construction processes within rail infrastructure

-You can develop a detailed programme from first principles using contract documentation, clearly identifying major quantities and constraints

-You have extensive experience of using Primavera, alongside comfort with the Microsoft Office suite, and demonstrate robust and efficient documentation and record keeping

-You have excellent management skills, with the ability to take the lead with client interfaces and present confidently at senior level meetings