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Senior Planning Manager
Technical Planner – HPC Planning Team ✨
Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.
The Technical Planner Role
The Technical Planner provides essential support to the HPC Planning team, ensuring that planning processes, tools, and standards are clearly defined, effectively maintained, and consistently applied across the project. This role ensures stability, reliability, and continuous improvement of the integrated planning environment, enhancing:
- Schedule quality
- Process compliance
- Stakeholder confidence
As the project evolves in scale and complexity, the planner must guide the evolution of systems and processes, ensuring they remain structured, controlled, and transparent while delivering deeper analytical insights.
Responsibilities
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Ownership of the Planning Process:
- Manage integrated programmes, critical paths, client programmes.
- Ensure analysis and acceptance of contractor programmes.
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Cost and Progress Management:
- Oversee cost loading of programmes to align with appropriate levels of cost and progress capture.
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Critical Risk Analysis & Stakeholder Communication:
- Analyse contractor programmes, assessing key metrics:
- Run rates
- Schedule risks
- Mitigation measures and opportunities
- Provide actionable feedback to project management.
- Analyse contractor programmes, assessing key metrics:
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Contractual Assignments:
- Leverage contractual governance to support programme-related events.
- Lead all aspects of contractual management for scheduling.
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Process & Performance Optimization:
- Strengthen planning performance through direct oversight of:
- Project scheduling
- Effective monitoring techniques
- Strengthen key relationships across teams and stakeholders.
- Strengthen planning performance through direct oversight of:
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Strategic Contributions:
- Support strategic development, due diligence, and sustainable business growth.
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Collaboration & Best Practices:
- Foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
- Embed best practices, drive internal excellence, and build strong stakeholder relationships (internal/external).
Requirements
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Technical Proficiency:
- Primavera P6 expertise, including:
- Configuration management
- Data integrity safeguarding
- User training and performance support
- Primavera P6 expertise, including:
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Planning Governance & Compliance:
- Deep experience in planning governance, including:
- Baseline management
- Change control procedures
- Reporting on KPIs and milestones
- Deep experience in planning governance, including:
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Analytical Rigour:
- Highly analytical with a detail-oriented mindset, ensuring:
- Data accuracy
- Process compliance
- Highly analytical with a detail-oriented mindset, ensuring:
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Process-Driven Communication:
- Skilled communicator capable of:
- Documenting improvements
- Embedding industry standards
- Skilled communicator capable of:
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Experience in Complex Projects:
- Proven track record in large-scale projects, addressing:
- Audit resilience
- Lessons learned
- Continuous improvement initiatives
- Proven track record in large-scale projects, addressing:
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Technical Tool Proficiency:
- Confident user of:
- Microsoft Excel (advanced)
- SharePoint
- Project controls tools (e.g., TCP gateway, Leancloths)
- Confident user of:
Mace Values
- Safety First: We prioritise a safe and inclusive work environment for wellbeing and diverse team collaboration.
- Client Focus: We deliver high-quality outcomes – strategy, results, and long-term client relationships.
- Integrity: Our guidance and actions uphold ethical standards, ensuring alignment with conformance obligations.
- Create Opportunity: We foster continuous improvement and equip our people towards growth and development.
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Mace welcomes candidates from a diverse background—even if you do not fully meet all criteria, your unique expertise might align with another opportunity within our organisation.
Open to conversation about flexible working arrangements, including part-time or hybrid models, where appropriate to the role’s requirements.
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