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Senior Planner

September 21, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Planner

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Strategic Projects team based in Glasgow. Within this role, you can enjoy exposure to delivering net zero carbon and embrace smart building technologies, progression opportunities, support in obtaining further qualifications and even more.

Location: HMP Glasgow, Scotland

Contract: Full time, permanent (Monday to Friday) - able to consider part time working

Salary: Competitive salary + industry leading benefits


Kier have been awarded a PCSA contract to develop the design for HMP Glasgow, which is a replacement for the existing adult male establishment at HMP Barlinnie. The project will deliver a new, modern prison that provides secure custody, safe and ordered prison regimes, high standards of decency and care, alongside opportunities for prisoners to develop in a way that helps them reintegrate on return to society on their release.?

The new prison is to accommodate spaces for 1,200 persons along with associated support facilities and regimes with an emphasis on rehabilitation through a focus on health and wellbeing. In developing the design we will explore options for delivering net zero carbon and embrace smart building technologies and automated processes to support the operation of the new facility.


Responsibilities

As a Senior Planner, you'll be working with the project teams to assist them in developing realistic target construction programmes, still fully integrated, and retaining an overall monitoring capacity for our larger & more complex projects.

Your day to day will include:

  • 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 Programm

  • Supporting 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.

  • Developing 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.


Who are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is great for you if:

  • You hold the relevant qualifications

  • You have a solid history of working on build tenders and projects with a main contractor

  • You are an experienced operator of Primavera P6 and Microsoft project software

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.


Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more

  • 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday)

  • Two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan)

  • A free healthcare app giving you access to clinicians and experts on fertility, pregnancy and baby, menopause and men's health

  • An additional two days' leave to take part in volunteering activities of your choice

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: https://www.kier.co.uk/reward-and-benefits-summary-m1-m2-grades/


Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.


Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf


Closing date: 20 October 2022

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

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