Planner / Senior Planner - Essex & Sulfolk

MWH Treatment is looking to strengthen their Planning team with a Senior Planner for our Northumbrian region. You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated. Directly reporting to the Senior Planning Engineer, Their responsibility is to assist other members of the project teams to develop, monitor, progress & report on tender & contractual programmes.

This includes ensuring that both the operational & commercial members of the team are fully briefed on the critical activities & risks of their projects at all times. The Senior Planner will be required to work closely with the commercial department to monitor costs, take ownership of several project plans, drive the project team to deliver to the plan & challenge any delay & deviation.

Leading, coaching & guiding junior Planners, you’ll be viewed as an approachable planning expert who is keen to pass on experience & knowledge to develop others & drive performance improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation. Ensuring that they are compliant & realistic Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them & submit them for acceptance as contractually required Assist with the delivery of collaborative planning workshops Lead the development of Construction phase 4D Planning Maintain a baseline programme & measure progress against it Liaise with project teams to ensure consistency of key assumptions on methodology & outputs Identify opportunity & key risks during the planning process Gather, collate & distribute progress information & the reasons for deviations/delays Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly.

Attend progress/project meetings & present programmes for review. Attend site meetings to gather progress information Report programme issues to the Senior Planning Manager & site management team Distribute regular look ahead programmes Ensure an As Built programme is available at project closedown Maintain knowledge of site processes & costs Record the effects of changes on site & the effects on the contract programme Assist with the monthly progress report in line with customer requirements Build & maintain relationships with the Senior Planning Manager, Project Manager, Commercial team & client representatives Assist with the administration of Primavera P6 planning software Deliver planning software training to new users when required