Head of Planning

March 4, 2020 | Comments Off on Head of Planning

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 London and South-East are looking for their new Head of Planning to manage the function for both offices in Loughton and Aylesford.

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.
Your involvement at Preconstruction…
  • 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
And Construction….
  • 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.
A few other things we didn't want to miss off…
  • 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.
Ideally you will have experience within a similar role in Construction, working on Education, Commercial, Residential and Health & Science projects.

So, what are you waiting for? Make the journey. Leave a legacy.

Closing date 01.04.2020.

We do not accept speculative CV's from recruitment agencies.