Senior Planner

BCS are recruiting for a Senior Planner for a well-established Interior Fit-out Contractor to work on a 1 year contract based in Aldermaston.

Responsibilities & Main Tasks

• Lead and liaise with other Space Planner(s) and all members of project(s) teams to ensure all project(s) are delivered within time and budget.

• Lead planning management and support to both pre-contract and contract operations.

• Produce, manage and update programmes for acceptance in line with NEC contract requirements and communicate programmes to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Manage and incorporate change events into construction programmes and liaise with the project(s) commercial team to secure full entitlement under the contract.

• Measure, forecast and control against agreed programme baseline including monitoring of performance and providing input to coordination of operations to project teams.

• Provide robust, accurate forecast information to internal stakeholders including detailed information for each period.

• Produce programme outputs as required by the projects(s) including Critical Path, short term lookaheads, sub-contractor inputs etc.

• Provide support to corrective action and develop recovery plans when required.

• Support opportunity and risk management process including ensuring time risk allowance is included within programmes.

• Support sub-contractor programme information and maintain excellent working relationships with all stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Project controls / Project management qualification.

• Degree / HNC in an engineering / construction discipline.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of project planning within civil / construction sector (Ideally with some Leadership Experience)

• Proven Detailed knowledge of planning techniques including critical path analysis and ability to produce fully logic-linked, resource loaded programmes.

• Advanced user of Oracle Primavera P6

• Detailed understanding of programme reporting requirements including the implementation and use of Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques.

• Extensive knowledge of programme requirements under NEC Contracts including the assessment and implementation of compensation events

• Ability in the use of CEMAR in managing NEC Contracts

• Independently manage own time accurately to meet strict deadlines.

• Security Clearance (SC) - UKSV (Vetting Service) – Previous security clearance would be advantageous