Senior Regional Planner - Civil Engineering

Senior Regional Planner - Civil Engineering

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 + pkg

Location: Somerset / Devon

Region: South West

We are currently seeking a Senior Regional Planner to work for a major civil engineering contractor on multi million pound civil infrastructure schemes across the SW region.

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established, award winning contractor with continuous success over several years and a solid order book.

This is a hybrid role with a mix of home/site and regional office working.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate should fit the below criteria:

• Main contract experience
• Progressed from an engineering background (Site Engineer, Section Engineer, Agent, etc.)
• Solid understanding of ASTA, P6, MS planning software
• Experience working on civil related projects
• At least three years planning experience, with a further number of years experience on site
• Progressed from an engineering background

Roles & Responsibilities

• Support the successful delivery of fully logically linked programmes that comply with the planning standard and client requirements.
• Provide input into project risk registers.
• Develop design and build programmes with detailed WBS structures and fully coded activities to support both AmCo and Client progress reporting.
• Develop and maintain excellent communication relationships with internal and external customers to gather progress information for project/programme updates.
• Continuously monitor programmes to ensure they are updated to accurately reflect progress and the revised forecast of the works and compare to baseline.
• Provide regular feedback and reports on the status of the projects to the project delivery team.
• Provide sufficient detail on materials and plant to ensure the procurement teams have early visibility of the project requirements.
• Provide sufficient resource information to ensure any recruitment requirements are identified in a suitable timescale.
• Ensure the programme covers all the contractual key milestones.
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the planning and delivery teams to support successful project delivery.
• Act as an ambassador for the company with suppliers, stakeholders, customers and the public.
• Support the successful delivery of the business lifesaving rules.