Costain Group
Senior Planner
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Costain - Senior Planner Role
Costain has secured significant work in the water sector to support the AMP 8 investment cycle.
We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction, and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners.
Role Overview
Reporting to the Planning Lead, the Senior Planner will be responsible for ensuring the projects are kept on track by updating and maintaining the project programme. Initially the role will be in the pre-construction phase, monitoring the design programme and developing the delivery programme with the design information as it becomes available. The programme would continue to be maintained through the delivery phase through to handover and closedown. This role is based on our Sale project and site presence is required 3 days a week minimum.
Responsibilities
- Prepare robust tender and contract programmes using the designated planning tool, that link design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and handover, in line with the project life cycle.
- Display and analyse the project Critical Path and advise the project team (including the client) of the results and any appropriate corrective action.
- Produce/maintain project baselines and execute change control process as appropriate.
- Correctly record project progress in the programme, reschedule programme to take effect of the progress data, and communicate the results to the project team and advise of any appropriate corrective action.
- Produce programmes that satisfy contractual requirements.
- All programmes and documentation to be produced to company practices and procedures.
- Manage several programmes and support Planning Engineers/Junior Planning Engineers including supervision and checking of work to ensure that all work complies with company standards and procedures.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in the use of Primavera P6.
- Construction / Engineering Experience.
- Ability to engage and build strong relationships with stakeholders, striving for mutual success.
- Able to actively administer and manage NEC forms of contract.
- Able to work and learn quickly in a fast-paced, fun, and dynamic environment.
- Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do.
- Flexibility and adaptability to be able to respond rapidly to unexpected events, having the ability to shape our responses appropriately.
- Excellent written and oral presentation skills to present complex interdependencies simply and clearly.
Desirable
- Water industry experience.
- Enterprise working.
Qualifications
- HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a planning-related discipline.
- CSCS.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading-edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue-chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading-edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation, and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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