Bouygues UK have an exciting opportunity for a career focussed Planning Manager to work on a wide variety of new build construction projects. Some of these projects include Oriel, a joint initiative to transform a two-acre site at St Pancras Hospital to deliver a pioneering eye care, research, and education centre. A state-of-the-art building with an anticipated gross internal area of up to 46,000m2. The West Middlesex - Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre (ADC), valued at £80 million. This state-of-the-art facility would provide diagnostic imaging such as X-ray, CT and MRI as well as cancer treatment and renal dialysis for people with kidney problems.

Essential:

• Ability to manage multiple resources with the Planning Department and multiple project programmes running in parallel
• Proven common forms of contract experience in NEC/JCT
• Mentoring abilities to support staff and provide the platform for personal development within the department.
• Experience of construction projects and process across a broad range of sectors (bias towards commercial, mixed use developments , schools, high end residential preferable)
• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of development; design, procurement, construction (structure, architecture, services), commissioning
• Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly and clearly articulate key issues and to listen and capture concerns of others
• Use of specialist planning software (ideally all of Power project, P6, MS Project), will also consider Asta experience

Manage and operate the planning system in accordance with the planning procedures, providing a consistently high level of service. Responsibility of managing the planning resource within pre-construction ensuring effective solutions are provided within the bid process. Manage the planning resource on multiple live projects ensuring the production teams are supported to deliver the project time objectives