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Assistant Planner

Kier Group

Southampton

On-site

GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Full time

18 days ago

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An established industry player is seeking an Assistant Planner to join their dynamic Build Team in Southampton. In this pivotal role, you will support project teams across a range of significant projects, ensuring effective planning and execution. Your expertise in construction planning techniques and software will be essential in producing integrated programmes that drive project success. This role not only offers a chance to work on diverse projects with substantial values but also emphasizes a commitment to diversity and inclusion within the workplace. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and contribute to the construction revolution, this opportunity is for you.

Experience in construction planning within a main contractor environment.
Familiarity with various forms of construction contracts.

Produce and manage integrated programmes for diverse projects.
Review subcontractor programmes for compliance and performance.

Construction planning experience

Planning techniques

Understanding of tender documents

Asta Powerproject

BSc in Construction

HNC/D in Construction

Planning software

We're looking for an Assistant Planner to join our Build Team based in Southampton.

Location: Southampton

Hours: 40 hours per week, flexibility on start and end times available

What will you be responsible for?

As an Assistant Planner, you'll be working within the project team, supporting them in the Southern Region across a wide range of projects with values from £5m to £100m.

Your Day To Day Will Include

Producing & managing fully integrated programmes incorporating all disciplines (i.e. design, commercial, construction) based on output rates & benchmarking, with sufficient time risk allowances, terminal float / buffer to contractual completions and agreement with trade packages.
Reviewing subcontractor programme / logistics information including their compliance with contract conditions.
Promote the wellbeing of your team and ensure that an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought, backgrounds and experience is actively encouraged and achieved.
Developing information for tender settlements including benchmarking.
Input to weekly / fortnightly project team progress reports and BI dashboard.

What are we looking for?

This role of Assistant Planner is great for you if you have:

Construction planning experience gained within the main contractor environment.
Experience in the use of construction planning techniques and the required planning toolsets.
An understanding of various forms of tender documents, contract documents and specifications including JCT, NEC or bespoke forms of Construction Contracts.
Experienced user of planning software, ideally Asta Powerproject.
Construction related academic qualification (BSc, HNC/D etc.) preferred but not essential.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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