Planner

Job Description

ROLE: Planner
LOCATION: Gatwick, East Sussex - Hybrid
SALARY: Up to Circa £64,000 DOE + benefits

THE COMPANY
This company acts as a vital piece of UK infrastructure and a major driver for regional economies. They offer you the perfect opportunity to diversify your career while prioritising what matters most to you. This is a place where innovation thrives, work-life balance is valued, and skills are nurtured.

THE JOB
As Planner you will play a key role in providing a full planning service for all assigned projects. You will manage schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities. In addition, you will provide technical support and guidance including Work Breakdown Structure, Cost Breakdown Structure, and Resource Loading. You will have responsibility for smaller projects (typically up to £20m) or will support a Senior Planner on more complex projects.

Your duties will include:

1. Develop and maintain robust delivery schedule for work activities with clear milestones and monitoring activities to support the project schedule including interdisciplinary constraints or interfaces that define activity sequences.
2. Work with delivery team to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan (programme integrated schedule).
3. Perform schedule monitoring, including identifying critical activities and updating functions for specific applications, disciplines, or specialties. Assist the development and implementation requirements for updating and monitoring the schedule.
4. Develop and apply installation rates to quantity takeoffs and developed quantities for assigned projects. Review and analyse the contractor’s schedules submitted for acceptance and provide the required recommendation to the project team.
5. Evaluate quantities, job hours/staffing, and schedule logic for a specific discipline or specialty.
6. Prepare schedule, staffing, and quantity progress and performance reports for assigned disciplines or specialties.
7. Manage contract programme assessment and acceptance/rejection, assessing compensation events and performing delay analysis.
8. Review quantity logs to ensure total quantities are represented for assigned projects. Assists in the development of the required job hour expenditure for assigned projects.
9. Review and analyse contractor’s schedules against the baseline, identifying critical path activities and performance variance.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Educated to Degree/Post-Grad level or equivalent in construction or business related field.
Experience as a planner on projects with a value typically in excess of £5m highly desirable.
Significant experience with Primavera software (P6) and MS Excel.
Experience in planning infrastructure projects in a live operational environment desirable.
Experience in performing quantity takeoffs, statistical analysis, and computer operations.
Understanding of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up work processes.
Understanding of mathematical and financial reports.
Understanding of NEC types of contract.

If you are interested in this opportunity hit “apply” or contact Craig Humphrey at Xenon Recruitment – Professional Services today! Alternatively, if you are seeking some advice/guidance about your next career steps get in touch for a confidential conversation.