Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Planner
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About The Role
Job Title: Senior Planner
Location: Motherwell
Company: Balfour Beatty
About The Role
Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced Senior Planner to join our Planning team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the successful delivery of complex construction projects by leading the development, management and optimisation of project programmes and schedules.
As a Senior Planner, you will provide strategic planning expertise across tender and contract stages, ensuring programmes are robust, compliant and aligned with project objectives. You will work closely with project teams and stakeholders while mentoring and supporting less experienced planners to drive planning excellence across the business.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development, maintenance and management of complex construction project programmes.
- Ensure programme content is compliant with planning procedures, contractual requirements and project objectives.
- Identify planning scope, key project constraints, major quantities and factors influencing project delivery.
- Develop and agree optimum construction methodologies, sequencing and delivery strategies during tender stages.
- Produce high-quality planning deliverables including programmes, presentations, reports and planning philosophies.
- Develop and maintain Contract Programmes throughout project lifecycles.
- Analyse and monitor project critical paths, identifying risks, opportunities and corrective actions.
- Manage project baselines and support change control processes.
- Support effective resource planning, including labour, plant, equipment and materials.
- Monitor programme performance through project reporting, data analysis and KPI tracking.
- Work collaboratively with project teams, clients, subcontractors and other stakeholders.
- Provide strategic planning oversight and mentor Assistant, Trainee and Planner level colleagues.
Who we're looking for
Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong data management and reporting capabilities.
- Effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Leadership and mentoring capability.
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Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of planning software such as Primavera P6, ASTA Powerproject, Microsoft Project and Excel.
- Comprehensive understanding of construction project management principles and best practice.
- Strong knowledge of project scheduling, planning and programme management.
- Understanding of tender documentation, contracts and technical specifications.
- Knowledge of risk management techniques including programme risk analysis and schedule risk assessment.
Experience
- Significant experience producing and managing construction programmes across complex projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading planning activities within construction or infrastructure environments.
- Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with clients, subcontractors and key project stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring or leading other planning professionals is desirable.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
- Family friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.
Professional and Personal Development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
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About Us
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
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