Planner
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 hour ago
Job Description
Reporting to the Planning Lead, the Planner will be responsible for ensuring the projects are kept on track by updating and maintaining the project programmes.
The programmes will be maintained through ECI phase, the delivery phase to handover and then on to Completion.
Responsibilities
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.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
Reporting to the Planning Lead, the Planner will be responsible for ensuring the projects are kept on track by updating and maintaining the project programmes.
The programmes will be maintained through ECI phase, the delivery phase to handover and then on to Completion.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain robust ECI and D&B contract programmes using Primavera P6 EPPM planning software, liaising with design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and handover teams, in line with the project life cycle.
- Display and analyse the project Critical Path and advise the project team (Inc. client) of the results and any appropriate corrective action.
- Produce/maintain project baselines and execute change control process as appropriate.
- Regularly update schedules to reflect progress, change events, risks and opportunities.
- Produce fully logic linked programmes, ensuring alignment with NEC4 contract requirements.
- Support the site delivery team in the production and maintenance of short-term lookahead programmes.
- Prepare and produce monthly programme packs to be submitted to the Client, including filtered programmes, programme integrity check reports and robust programme narratives.
- Manage several programmes and support the wider planning team to ensure that all work complies with company standards and procedures.
- Support implementation of project controls, including reporting dashboards and performance metrics.
- Proven experience in project planning within Civil engineering, utilities or major infrastructure.
- Construction / Engineering Experience.
- Understanding of NEC4 contract mechanisms and programme requirements.
- Ability to engage and build strong relationships with stakeholders, striving for mutual success.
- 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.
- Proficiency in Primavera P6.
- Water industry experience (Desirable)
- Relevant engineering or project management qualification
- CSCS
- Driving licence.
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.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
