Assistant Planner at Kier Group

What will you be responsible for?

As an Assistant Planner, you will be working with the Pre Construction & Construction Delivery Teams to offer planning support on multiple projects at tender, PCSA and delivery stages of that range from £5M - £120M+ in value.

The Assistant Planner will retain an overall development & monitoring capacity for projects to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with project requirements.

Your day-to-day tasks will include:

• Reporting to senior planning team members & project leads within the region managing fully integrated programmes that incorporate all disciplines (i.e. design, commercial, construction).
• Monitoring of tender event schedule (TES) / procurement schedule
• Producing site logistics, scaffold schedules, temporary power & water requirements, temporary work schedules
• Identification of programme float and reporting on its status to the Senior Planners / Project Managers
• Consider alternative methods of delivery and accurately assess potential sequence changes to the critical path

Who are we looking for?

This role of an Assistant Planner is great for you:

• Understanding of programme from PCSA programme through to construction.
• Operational experience including experience of planning projects within the construction industry.
• Basic understanding in the use of planning techniques and the required planning toolsets – Asta Powerproject
• Awareness of various forms of tender documents, contract documents and specifications including JCT, NEC or bespoke forms of Construction Contracts.
• An OND/HND in a relevant subject is desirable, as is Professional membership of one or more of the following: RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/CIBSE