Senior Planner

Birmingham Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

In this Senior Planner role, you will shape and manage integrated planning across pre-contract and project phases for high-profile, technically complex construction projects. You’ll work within a collaborative team to align design, procurement, and construction programmes, while driving changes and assessing implications for project outcomes. You’ll engage with supply chains, clients, and consultants to develop robust programmes and delivery strategies, ensuring timely, cost-effective project execution. This is an opportunity to influence project success and contribute to a supportive, growth‑focused team culture.

Pay / Benefits

  • Competitive salary & bonus
  • Car Allowance / Company Car
  • Travel to sites covered by HMRC rates
  • Private Medical
  • Pension 8% employer contribution
  • Health and Wellness programme

Responsibilities

  • Instigate and monitor performance metrics across a project lifecycle
  • Integrate design and procurement elements with construction programmes
  • Create integrated tender programmes and method statements; present to settlement meetings
  • Change management: assess impact of changes and advise on EOT issues
  • Engage with supply chains, consultants, clients and stakeholders during programme development
  • Produce schedules and analyse quotes for time-related preliminaries

Key requirements

  • Security clearances/DBI checks (pass)
  • Experience on MoJ and DfE projects and with competitive tenders; familiarity with commercial strategies
  • Experience on live construction projects and tenders/preconstruction
  • Ability to work independently within a construction team
  • Confident presentation to clients, consultants, and leadership
  • Ability to lead or facilitate collaborative planning exercises
  • Proficiency in tender, PCSA and construction programme development; identify opportunities and risks
  • Proficiency in developing logistics plans and schedules for contractor preliminaries (scaffold, temporary site services, cranes, hoardings)
  • Confident communication
  • Collaborative leadership
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Tender programme development
  • PCSA and construction programme planning
  • Risk and opportunity identification

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