Senior Planner

Senior Planner

Willmott Dixon are currently looking to recruit a Senior Planner to our London & East construction business. With offices in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and Chelmsford (Essex), we deliver projects across multiple sectors within north London, the northern home counties and East Anglia. This will be a hybrid role.

As a Senior Planner you will be providing robust planning support at pre-construction stages developing tender programmes for submission documents and possibly supporting (advisory) our site operations teams as required. As a Senior Planner you will be collaborating closely with our supply chain partners developing good quality logical programmes and associated work for projects on site.

You will be instrumental in planning resources for projects (often in live environments) in collaboration with the other members of the project and supply chain - as well as project resource requirements for future workloads.

You will have experience of identifying complex project issues early to reduce the impact on working programmes.

The Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the preconstruction planning process, including project scheduling, resource planning, and identifying critical milestones
• Develop detailed project programmes and schedules using industry-leading planning software
• Identify and mitigate project risks, recommending contingency plans as needed
• Collaborate with the design and estimating teams to ensure buildability and optimized construction sequences

Essential and Desirable Criteria

Essential Criteria

Minimum relevant level 4 qualification or equivalent (HNC/NVQ4)

Ideally experience of accurate programming and sequencing of complex refurbishment projects

Ideally from a main contracting background

Understanding of latest construction technology

Experience of using Elecosoft Power Project

Experience of reading and accurately interpreting drawings, specification and other construction information

Experience of working with supply chain and having interaction with customers and communities

Desirable Criteria

Relevant degree or equivalent qualification

NEC forms of contract experience

Claims or dispute experience would be advantageous

Appropriate membership of relevant professional body

Identify your customers' needs and expectations and strive to deliver them

Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability confident employer.

Benefits: In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full / heavily discounted private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

About Us

With 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose beyond profit is to deliver brilliant buildings, transform lives, strengthen communities, and enhance the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and trusted privately owned business where our people can thrive.

Construction is changing and we are at the forefront of that change. Pioneering new ways to build, innovating the way construction is viewed and establishing ourselves as one of the top employers in any industry. It truly is an amazing company in one of the most exciting industries with a vast array of professional career paths.

Willmott Dixon was awarded No 1 in the Best "Big" Companies (2022) to work for and already holds the Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2022 and is the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.