VINCI Building UK
Assistant Planner

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Assistant Planner
At VINCI Building, an Assistant Planner plays a crucial role to help create, track, and update building project schedules. Key duties include supporting project programs, tracking site progress, and assisting with tender bids.
The Role
- Working with a Senior Planner, provide planning services ensuring the teams are delivering against project time objectives.
- Have an understanding for each project the level of planning service and anticipated time allocation to provide that service.
- Be involved in identifying, communicating and managing project risks. Collaborating with the team to solve any issues or problems.
- Build strong internal and external relationship with the Planning department and broader project teams/Client team.
- Communicating with other disciplines within production teams to ensure they are aware of their roles in meeting the programme.
- Ensure compliance with company procedures and planning standards.
- Provide detailed and accurate regular progress reporting to the project team and client as required.
- Support the team to summarise projects status upstream to senior management, highlighting any unresolved major risks and potential overruns.
- Manage time and workload to ensure deadlines are met. Highlight any potential work overload/slackening to Line Manager as soon as it is apparent.
- Ensure compliance with all current VINCI Building Quality, Safety and Environmental requirements.
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Essential Criteria
- Some Planning software expertise, preferably in P6 or Asta Powerproject.
- Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of development; design, procurement, construction (structure, architecture, services), commissioning.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to quickly and clearly articulate key issues. Listen and capture concerns of others.
- To have a keen eye for detail, to be able to produce accurate reports and programmes as requested in a timely manner.
- Work in a safe manner at all time and plan safety into work activities.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of construction projects across a broad range of sectors, healthcare, commercial, industrial and mixed use developments.
- Ability to manage own time and workload, managing the expectations of others.
- Experience/expertise in Microsoft packages especially Excel and Powerpoint.
We are VINCI Building
Operating from our network of offices throughout England and Wales, VINCI Building delivers new build, refurbishment and associated fitout works, with particular expertise in the education, healthcare, industrial, air, retail, commercial and mixed-use sectors.
We focus on technical excellence and experience to sustainably deliver best value for our clients. We understand and respond to the challenges of the modern built environment.
Our goal is always to build strong partnerships with our customers and stakeholders to ensure success by unlocking your strategic vision and turning it into a deliverable scheme. We are active in a wide range of sectors and value bands, allowing us to provide a regional service with national resources.


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VINCI Building delivers complex projects and programmes, blending our corporate stability with the local knowledge our teams offer.
Sustainability is at the heart of our approach, and we are committed to respecting and protecting the environment in everything that we do. We take the time to understand and make a positive difference to each community that we work in to ensure that our projects leave a lasting legacy.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Building is about recognising and celebrating each other's differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly.
VINCI Building recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.
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