Senior Planner

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Job Description

Costain have been appointed by Northumbrian Water to the Living Water Enterprise to help shape and deliver its strategic infrastructure upgrade programme with contracts valued up to c.£670m to Costain over 15 years. We are now looking for an experienced Senior Planner to join the Framework team.

As a key member of the Delivery Team, the successful applicant will be aligned to the new AMP8 projects and will be able to demonstrate experience of integrating and managing schedules across large scale civil engineering programmes.

You will also need to demonstrate experience of working across multi-disciplinary programme teams covering every aspect of project delivery from design through procurement, construction, and commissioning.

This is a hybrid role with a mix of office (Newcastle), site and home working.

Responsibilities

• Set the planning strategy for complex projects and clearly communicate that through the wider team
• Demonstrate the establishment and application of governance utilising business systems and commercial, risk and schedule reporting processes
• Lead planning aspects of EPC projects
• Manage programmes with respect to change, slippage and mitigation
• Develop a proactive, collaborative open relationship with the Customer particularly in open reporting and evaluation of project data
• Develop, manage, and maintain an integrated plan across the entire programme of works to schedule deadlines, manage dependencies, and coordinate the optimal use of resources
• Support the establishment of common procedures, systems, and protocols, and ensure compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and standards
• Consolidate data from across the programme to develop monthly reports on progress, benefits and performance against KPIs, in support of framework earned value metrics, performance tables and balanced scorecard
• Ensure that suitably qualified and experienced planning resources are provided to projects in a timely manner, capable of driving collaborative planning

Qualifications

• Significant post qualification experience in a Planning role
• Chartered member of relevant professional body (or working towards)
• Experience of tendering and working with risk and commercial managers to ensure full compliance with contractual obligations
• Proactive, collaborative and enthusiastic approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Be able to relate in a confident manner to people at all levels
• Proven skills in the efficient and effective management of others
• Be able to work to tight deadlines
• Proven experience of Primavera (P6)
• Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans
• Ability to reconcile cost information as it applies to the programme of works
• Proficient in the interpretation of estimating, scheduling, programming and risk tools
• Proficient in the use of Earned Value Analysis
• Relevant experience in project controls and/or project delivery
• Previous water sector experience (preferred)
• Full driving licence

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About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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