Berkeley Group Plc
Construction Planner
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About Berkeley Group
Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham, and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable, and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life.
We specialise in long-term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic, and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders.
Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise, and relentless attention to detail.
What You’ll Be Doing
The Construction Project Planner supports the project team in developing and maintaining an achievable project plan. Coordinating with the Production Team to make sure all parts of the plan align, highlighting any risk and opportunities ahead of time to enable the project to achieve its goal. The Planner will also monitor and report on the current project status and future forecast.
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This is an exciting role, which provides an opportunity for someone who is highly collaborative, self-motivated, and with a desire to learn and progress their career whilst making a significant contribution to a crucial part of the business.
- Collaborate with the senior leadership team to develop and regularly review the project programme.
- Walk the site, providing an independent monitor of progress and evidence-based droplines.
- Produce weekly and monthly progress reports, providing project leads and senior management with status against master and project level programmes, including the use of Critical Path Analysis to support flagging concerns.
- Collating information from key project programmes for the Commercial, Build, and Technical teams.
- Lead collaborative meetings to progress and report on events through preconstruction activities.
- Collaborate with Project teams on resolutions to programme / logistical challenges, assisting production teams with creating ‘What ifs’ and short-term programmes to visualize and establish options.
- Engage with the supply chain, assisting the Project team with subcontractor programme analysis and monitoring, both through tender phase and whilst in contract.
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What you’ll bring
- Construction build knowledge and experience.
- Ability to read construction drawings.
- Demonstratable understanding of sequence and logic.
- Microsoft 365 (Good understanding of Excel- formulas, graphs).
- Asta Power Project or similar.
Why join us?
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days.
- Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance.
- Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform.
- Berkeley Foundation volunteer day.
- Private pension plan.
- Group life assurance.
The standard default full-time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.
Internal applicants
If you’re an internal applicant, please ensure you’ve informed your line manager of your intention to apply for this position.
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