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Head of Planning
March 10, 2021 | Comments Off on Head of Planning
At Kier, we are Collaborative, Trusted and Focused, with Safety at the heart of everything we do. We offer a competitive salary and package along with the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects.
Kier Construction Southern are looking for their new Head of Planning to manage the function for offices in Crawley, Southampton and Maple Cross.
Your staff will be the most important to you.
- Overseeing training and development of the planning team including undertaking annual reviews.
- Manage and allocate department preconstruction & construction workload.
- Oversee tender planning outputs from the planning team to ensure they meet business requirements.
- Recruitment of planners to supplement the existing team and ensuring retention of existing team as far as is practicable.
- Maintain and develop tender preconstruction procedures.
- Review tender planning outputs to ensure they are robust, logically sound, and represent a 'work winning strategy'.
- Undertake tender planning on more complex projects and prequalification submissions
- Review key strategic project programmes in conjunction with the project planner to ensure they are robust and represent the team strategy for completing the project.
- Review planners independent progress reports to ensure accuracy and transparency.
- Troubleshooting on challenging projects
- Ensure 'as built' knowledge is fed back into the preconstruction process via benchmarking and development of productivity outputs.
- Liaise with counterparts in other regions to ensure best practice is disseminated throughout the business.
- Develop 4D planning capability in the business both at preconstruction & construction phases.
- Produce and maintain reports for Board Meetings including Current/Future workload charts, and Regional Progress Reports.
So, what are you waiting for? Make the journey. Leave a legacy.
Closing Date: 09/04/2021