Senior Planner

January 13, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Planner

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Job Title: Senior Planner

Location: Nottingham, England

Business area: Kier Construction - Northern & Scotland

Contract:?Permanent, full time, Monday to Friday

Benefits: You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday) together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan). To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier, click here.

Looking to make the next step in your career?



Being one of the leading regional builders in the UK means many things to the team here at Kier Group. Our people are trusted to deliver projects of all sizes and complexities, across very diverse sectors, throughout the country. Join us and you could be involved in building anything from a strategic asset costing hundreds of millions of pounds, to a small-budget school extension that creates priceless classroom space. Whatever you do, you'll be making a difference on projects that matter, every day of your working life.

Job responsibilities?

Your key responsibilities will be all aspects of planning, phasing, programming and sequencing for our tendering activity, including the coordination of design, commercial and production activities into one truly Integrated Programme.? On our successful tenders you will then work with the project teams to assist them in developing realistic target construction programmes, still fully integrated, and will retain an overall monitoring capacity for our larger & more complex projects.

We would anticipate an element of support and mentoring of our project leads to ensure they have the technical software skills to produce their own regularly look ahead programmes, individual trade package programmes, as well as being able to update progress and undertake regular progress monitoring drop lines.

Finally, we would be looking for ideas to drive improvement and consistency in the timely delivery of our preconstruction preferred bids and our live projects.? This being achieved within a working group of fellow senior managers within the business.

What?do?we need from you??

You will need to hold the relevant qualifications, along with a solid history of working on build tenders and projects with a main contractor. We will also need you to be an experienced operator of Asta Powerproject software.

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.

Qualifications - Internal

Closing Date: 10th February 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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