My client is a Leading, Tier 1 Civil Engineering Contractor.
Due to an internal promotion and planned and continued growth they are looking to appoint, on a permanent basis a Planning Manager to work on a wide variety of Heavy Civil Engineering Projects which could be in any of the following sectors; Energy, Rail, Motorways, Wind Farms, Flood schemes, Ports & Marine, Substations and much more.

EXPERIENCE:

• A degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or another relevant subject matter.
• An established Senior Planner or Planning Manager.
• The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years’ experience since graduation on large scale civil engineering projects.

SKILLS:

• Able to digest high level of information and provide expanded detailed analysis using their work experience.
• Excellent communicator.
• Proactive in providing information and contributing to the quality submission for the Bid with relation to Programme and Methodology items.
• Understanding of BIM and its implications and value proposition within the organisation.
• A willingness to incorporate new evolving technologies such as AI into their workflows.

JOB ROLE:

• The Planning Manager will support the Head of Planning within the Pre-Construction Planning team
• They will lead the development and production of a tender programmes and supporting information; ensuring it complies with the Contract and Works Information.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the planning on the tender to produce the plan and programme for submission.
• Communicate the plan to everyone involved including external stakeholders.
• Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction.
• Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.
• Communicate and gain approval from the bid/project team, the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan utilizing visual aids and graphics developed from concept and detailed drawings.
• Liaise and negotiate with suppliers communicating proposed methods and sequence.
• Assist the bid team to evaluate supply chain quotations/methodologies that relate to programme.
• Manage the resource and cost loading of the programmes in liaison with the Estimating team to produce a commercial forecast if required.