McGee
NEC Project Planner
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Who Are We?
We are McGee. A specialist engineering contractor, with a reputation for designing and delivering some of London’s most complex and innovative civil engineering projects.
To name just a few: Constructing Europe’s deepest habitable basement, The Londoner Hotel. Delivering the impossible at Claridge’s Hotel’s mega basement and more recently, designing out 88% of The Acre’s embodied carbon of the temporary works.
We provide a value-based integrated approach. Focusing on quality and innovation.
We develop smart engineering solutions to complex problems and develop methods of working that enable fast delivery with safety and quality by design.
We operate a risk-based approach in everything that we do, identifying and mitigating risks through our planning.
We compliment this with our in-house supply chain, self-delivery philosophy and our support services.
We have technical and operational specialists within each of our core disciplines, including an in-house Construction Engineering team (CET), providing temporary works sequences and solution design and digital modelling.
About the Role
We are seeking a dedicated NEC Planner to join our team and support the successful execution of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and with the highest quality standards.
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Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Reviewing and creating initial program based on first principles.
- Developing contract programs for tender submissions.
- Analysing and recommending main contract programs post-project handover.
- Scheduling labour, plant, and material resources and managing the Tender Activity Programme.
- Reviewing the program to align with project objectives and targets and maintaining regular as-built programming.
- Monitoring site progress and highlighting critical path delays.
- Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, including Project Manager, Construction Manager, Commercial team, and Design team.
- Extracting critical information and communicating changes and obstacles to ensure timely issue resolution and project alignment.
- Analysing risks and developing contingency plans for Commercial and Change Control
- Advising Estimating/Commercial Team on site outputs and liaising with Project Manager and Quantity Surveyor on potential commercial events.
- Demonstrate impacts of commercial events on the program and manage program progress and change.
- Attend client meetings to discuss project progress and maintain project delivery.
- Generating and distributing reports on project schedules, progress, and performance indicators, providing regular updates to the Project Manager and Clients as required.
- Ensuring project compliance with industry regulations, safety standards, and company policies.
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Qualifications
- Civil Engineering Background
- Experience working with NEC Contracts.
- Proficiency in program management software - Primavera P6
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
This role will be based on projects in West London.
Why McGee?
This role not only offers exciting design engineering challenges – it allows the opportunity to directly influence the construction process. We are looking for someone who wants to grow with the role and potentially move into a lead position in the near future.
If you would like to join a team of exceptional people, working on high-profile complex engineering projects in London, please contact our Recruitment Manager directly at ella.kotlowski@mcgee.co.uk for more details on the role and an initial conversation in the strictest confidence.
McGee is a committed Equal Opportunities and Diversity employer.
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