Planner - Assistant/Intermediate level

Job Description

We are working with a regional Tier 2 contractor based near Southampton. The company is a privately owned, profitable business that works solely across the South of England and believes in delivering quality, defect-free schemes to clients. They target schemes between £3 and £35 million on frameworks and repeat business opportunities with long-term clients. Typical schemes include care developments, schools and multi-phased education schemes, student accommodation, PRS developments, office and residential schemes, hotels, and multi-use retail and leisure developments - a really wide and diverse range of projects to work on.

The role includes early involvement at the tender and bid stage, working with the estimating, design, and commercial teams to establish specifications, phasing, and strategy, and then forming the initial construction programme. You will work to update and amend both the overall programme as well as individual programmes and phases for each package of works on site until the final bid/tender is submitted.

You will then be responsible for managing the programme through to the start on site with the delivery. You will be expected to regularly visit the site, update both short and long-term programmes, identify opportunities to save time, as well as look ahead to identify clashes and other issues on site. You will work with the design team and supply chain to ensure work packages are released on time, that all bespoke items and packages are let in good time, and monitor progress to ensure key dates are met. You will continue to work with the commercial and design teams to evolve and adapt future bids and programmes for best practice.

You will ideally have worked for a regional contractor on schemes above £3 million and have experience of both D&B projects and framework negotiations. You should be able to demonstrate excellent work practices, attention to detail, organizational skills, as well as the ability to identify opportunities and potential issues. You must be able to use software such as Asta, 4 Projects and have experience of working with BIM and BREEAM. They are looking for candidates with some experience of planning and would consider Site Managers or Site Engineers who enjoy the aspects of the role of Planners and want to change lanes full time.

They offer a competitive salary and package, full training and bespoke development packages, and the opportunities for advancement are unlimited. They regularly recognize, reward, and promote the best internal talent. Randstad CPE values and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.