Project Planner

About us:

Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure. Its track record to date includes more than 304 miles of tunnels, 11,930 miles of roads (including 2,485 miles of highways), 2920 miles of railroad lines (including 434 miles of high-speed railroads) and 16,994 miles of road maintenance and repair.

Job Description:

Project Planner

Location: Heathrow Airport

Reporting to: Heathrow Planning lead

The role: Ferrovial Construction is looking for an experienced Planner to support infrastructure projects at Heathrow Airport.

Heathrow Airport: Ferrovial Construction has been working at Heathrow Airport for over 12 years delivering some of the most complex infrastructure projects to high quality, safety, and environmental standards. We have focused on design and build projects with a mix of contractual arrangements. This has enabled us to refine our management procedures in response to Heathrow’s Employers Requirements and Ferrovial Construction's internal management systems.

Since joining Heathrow’s framework in 2008, Ferrovial Construction has delivered a variety of airside and landside projects across the whole airport. For example, we have delivered new taxiways and rehabilitated existing taxiways and the southern runway. We have also redeveloped sterile and grass areas and replaced critical assets, such as fire main, fuel main, and HV ducts. We are currently working alongside Heathrow to rehabilitate assets with expired design life and plan for a future runway resurfacing project. We are constantly designing and planning our works around critical assets and engaging with different key stakeholders in order to deliver Heathrow value for money.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing a portfolio of Projects for the purpose of updating monthly the Reporting Baseline (RB) with the instructions PMIs / implemented CEs.
• Responsible for preparing a portfolio of Projects for monthly Progress Programme including narrative, project performance analysis, critical path, Programme integration activities according to the Contract requirements across scope, time, risk, schedule updates, opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinate all external parties involved in the progress process (commercials, planners, section leads, and site agents) to ensure a realistic Programme logic is in place.
• Act as an Expert Planner and scheduler.
• Use Primavera P6 professionally and be familiar with cost loading Programme.
• Manage and ensure earned value management.
• Promote company values in all dealings with other employees, clients, sub-contractors, and other external contacts.

Key Skills and Qualifications:

• Previous experience as a planner for large scale projects.
• Previous experience developing design, procurement, civil work, ME, fit out, testing, commissioning and handover processes.
• Extensive P6 software experience: Knowledge of the cost and resource loading process (essential).
• Experience in time/distance programmes.
• Self-motivated.
• Team player.
• Responsive to tender submission deadlines.
• Presentation skills (written and verbal).
• Experience with Tilos and ChainLink (desirable).
• Experience of working in a large organization (desirable).

Ferrovial embraces diversity and inclusion, and we see the value in providing equal opportunities to all employees. We are committed to building an inclusive team from a variety of different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so we encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.