VINCI Building UK
Project Planner
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Role Description
Responsibilities
The Project Planner for VINCI Building is responsible for developing, monitoring, and updating project schedules to ensure the timely and efficient delivery of construction projects. You will act as the key link between the project management team, site teams, and stakeholders, translating scope and engineering logic into a robust, buildable construction programme.
- Prepare Tender/Project Programme with minimal guidance and identify critical path, float, risk, and opportunity
- Identify project critical success factors for the programme and make other team members aware of these
- Collaborate with other company staff to ensure that works are planned and organized accordingly
- Challenge and verify suppliers and sub-contractors programme and methodology
- Develop with guidance Pre-construction, design, and procurement programmes
- Undertake what-if scenarios and report their projected outcomes
- Independently prepare phasing, logistics, and timeslices along with associated methodology/narratives as required by the tender deliverables
- Identify requirements for temporary works and liaise with temporary works coordinator
- Compile prelim books for adjudication
- Prepare (with guidance) Scaffold, temporary services, and crane enquiries
- Analyse (with guidance) Scaffold, temporary services, and crane enquiries
- Liaise with Estimating Team at tender stage to ensure all attendances are priced (not duplicated) and checks are made to ensure s/c's have included for MEWP's, craneage, lifting plant etc.
- Independently assess progress against programmes and report findings.
- Meet Client reporting requirements
- Assist with the PM Report and populate the planning and controls sections
- Develop the programme and associated documents in line with the form of Contract
- Update Project Programme in line with the Contract
- Identify change and assess impact on the Programme
- Use the document control system to optimise distribution of information
- Work with the supply chain to establish effective relationships and ensure planning requirements are understood and being acted upon
- Actively target opportunities to exceed customer expectations
- Actively participate in knowledge share events
- Contribute to the planning input into the PEP documentation, client specific documents etc.
- Work with the commercial team to ensure effective management of Total Costs
- Understand business need for positive cash flow and plan works accordingly
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Health and Safety
- Ensure that the site Health Safety and Environmental Plans, are in line with HS&E legislation and review their potential impact upon work sequencing
- Ensure that all activities are planned with time allocated for HSE needs such as documentation and approvals, training, competency checks, etc.
Requirements
- Over 3 years experience working for a UK based Main Contractor
- Demonstrated experience where you have developed, monitored, and updated detailed project schedules on building projects
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About VINCI Building
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.
- Sustainability: At the heart of our approach, we are committed to respecting and protecting the environment in everything that we do.
- Fairness, Inclusion, and Respect (FIR): We commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
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.
Eligibility
Please note: To be eligible for this opportunity, candidates must already possess the right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position, and applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly.
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