Planner - Infrastructure

Job Description

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a Planner to join our Infrastructure team in London. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of project planning service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our client, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a consultant and service provider. The successful candidate will be a key contributor in the project management team assisting in the successful implementation and delivery of large and complex projects.

Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

• Providing a planning and programming service to both external and internal clients, from feasibility stages through to C&Q post completion and occupation, ensuring that all time-related issues are effectively considered and can be controlled or addressed.
• Providing consultancy advice on all programming and monitoring issues.
• Preparing high-level strategic programmes to identify and assess the impact of key sequence, responsibilities and key strategies.
• Monitoring and reporting against programmes at all stages of pre-construction and construction, including the use of S-curves, trend analysis, baselines, critical path analysis, rescheduling, etc.
• Undertaking analysis of tender and contract programmes from contractors.
• Preparing critical path analysis.
• Establishing sequence, durations, and options for all stages of projects including design and procurement, legal, financial, gateways, construction, commissioning and qualification.
• Development of ambitious What-if scenario planning, in close association with Works Contractors and Construction Management, with acceleration of outcomes in mind.
• Monitoring and advising the Construction Management effort on multi-faceted key Trigger points, obtained from liaising closely with Contractors.
• Accurate and independent appreciation and reporting of current Works status.
• Co-ordinating with project teams including clients, project managers, cost consultants, design and other consultants and contractors, to negotiate and co-ordinate project programme issues.
• Providing consultancy advice on delay mitigation and undertake comprehensive delay and forensic analysis activities.
• Developing site logistic and phasing management plans.
• Creating resource programmes to demonstrate key inputs and outputs.
• Assisting with business development and maintaining client relations.

Requirements:

• Ideally educated to degree or equivalent level in a construction or engineering-related discipline.
• Extensive post-qualification experience as a project planner and schedule management within the construction industry, with the ability to demonstrate skills at high level, working within a variety of project teams.
• Skilled in the use of Oracle Primavera P6 and other planning software.
• Relevant experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sectors beneficial.
• Experience in both contracting and a consultant environment.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of the commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV) processes and associated schedule/activity requirements.
• Experience working on high-profile projects.
• Experience in a project controls and/or programme management environment.
• Articulate with ability to communicate complex issues in a clear manner, both verbally and written.
• An analytical thinker, demonstrating a logical approach to problem solving.
• Ability to achieve buy-in to work from clients and other project stakeholders.
• Good influencing skills.
• Confident with ability to work autonomously and demonstrate confidence in own working abilities.
• Ability to forge relationships and build rapport with team members, clients and customers alike.
• Ability to adapt planning skills to new and differing situations.
• Excellent IT Skills (MS Office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS Power BI).

Currie & Brown is an equal opportunity employer. As a Confident Committed Employer we ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Currie & Brown UK is also proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, which represents a promise by the company that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly.