Senior Planner

Your new company
One of the UK's leading contractors operating across a number of sectors including Infrastructure and Build
Your new role
Joining the operations team, you will be required to support both the pre-contract and contracts team, where you will coordinate with bid and construction teams to manage and control the planning and programming aspects of bid proposals and multiple projects in progress. These projects can cover a number of sectors including Healthcare, Education to Defence, with project values up to £100m
Duties to include:

• Produce tender programmes
• Produce tender deliverables
• Produce, manage and update the construction programme
• Manage and incorporate change events into the construction programme
• Provide detailed support and assistance to the project in order to enable the team to monitor pinch-points on the critical path and test and change logic where previously agreed to either improve upon the baseline programme or to mitigate potential delays
• Produce reports and programme commentary for customers on particular reporting requirements
• Produce programmes, reports as required by the project team
• With the commercial team, produce earned value analysis data
• Issue programme updates
• Attend progress meetings
• Develop and produce a fully logic linked and integrated tender programme comprising the design, procurement, construction and commission compliant with tender sum, design (where appropriate) and methodology without assistance
• Manage the planning and programme process by closely monitoring and controlling the development and implementation of the programme and checking completeness of supply chain packages
• Ensure planning and programming is produced on time
• Ensure processes are followed on all projects
• Input to the risk management process
• Work with allocated operations support in the production of method statements and ensure that the tender programme aligns with the pricing methods
• Develop and produce logistics and phasing plans
• Engage with supply chain and bid team members to discuss and achieve optimum programme and method solutions
• Attend all tender meetings as required and assist in the preparation of bid submission documents
• Identify, communicate and add key programme risks to the risk register
• Ensure effective communication of bid strategy and solutions to the project team

What you'll need to succeed

• Previous experience in a similar role working on projects with in this sector
• Educated to a professional level with a relevant degree or equivalent in a core business discipline

What you need to do now

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