Senior Planner – STRABAG Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom Job type: Full-time | Seniority: Mid-Senior level | Function: Other | Industry: Construction Responsibilities

Attend and contribute to project meetings. Undertake site visits to review site progress. Review the Employer’s Requirements, Contract Data and Works Information and highlight any deficiencies/omissions. Prepare and maintain detailed engineering, procurement and construction schedules, including monitoring and analysis of critical path and project float. Input into assessment of programme risks and programme risk analysis, including development and implementation of mitigation measures. Lead the production of reports and programme narratives to the defined project reporting requirements. Progress monitoring and regular updating of the construction programme, including forecasting of potential problem areas and proposing mitigation measures to the Project Manager. Produce programmes, reports and/or extract filters as required by the project team. Develop and undertake analysis of resource histograms. Prepare short-term programmes in conjunction with the project team. Include cost data into the programme and produce cash flow forecasts. Provide advice to the project team of when it is likely that there will be delays to the critical path and the potential impact this will result in. Produce phasing diagrams or presentations to demonstrate strategy and sequence as required. Coordinate designers and other supplier’s works and integrate into the project programme. In conjunction with Commercial and Project teams develop the programme for change events. Monitor productivity to determine trends and to assist in forecasting. Help to develop cost and resource loaded construction programmes. Interface with other functional teams including BIM team, design team, estimation team and commercial team. Provide productivity as-built data accumulated from the works to allow feedback to the Business Development team and availability to the wider Planning team. Encourage sharing of information and best practice and communication between Business Units. Reporting of data and progress to the Planning Manager.

Qualifications

Degree/HND/HNC in Construction / Engineering or appropriate professional qualification. Advanced competence in appropriate Planning software. Broad experience within appropriate construction environment. Active experience of working with a wide range of planning techniques in both tendering and contract delivery. An advanced understanding of the commercial and contractual processes within the planning function. Computer literate with an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft packages. Understanding of the benefits of the use of BIM and 4D planning. Strong communication skills. Management experience. Ability to resource and cost load programmes and produce outputs to clearly demonstrate this information to others.

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