Senior Planning Engineer
England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 2 weeks ago
JOB DESCRIPTION
As a Senior Planning Engineer within our multi-discipline Engineering Services Team, you will be an integral part of a team delivering projects across all our sectors including Water, Road, Rail, Defence & Nuclear Energy, your duties will include:
Utilising your knowledge and expertise in the Project Controls discipline you will be responsible for providing Project Control solutions and services to our clients. You will also be a key contributor to improving processes, procedures and tools utilised by the function.
As a Senior Planning Engineer, you are required to be planning focused, confident in running your own project as well as working effectively within a team. You will be joining a growing consultancy team working on a variety of contracts within multiple sectors.
This is a full-time position with a flexible approach to home working to promote well-being and it will be predominantly home-based but will require occasional office attendance in London and / or Manchester as per business needs.
You will be required to undertake short-term or long-term commissions to address a variety of customer needs. Candidates with a track record of cost management at pre and post contract; working on contracts through the development cycle to the delivery through the construction phase would be preferred.
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
QUALIFICATIONS
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
As a Senior Planning Engineer within our multi-discipline Engineering Services Team, you will be an integral part of a team delivering projects across all our sectors including Water, Road, Rail, Defence & Nuclear Energy, your duties will include:
Utilising your knowledge and expertise in the Project Controls discipline you will be responsible for providing Project Control solutions and services to our clients. You will also be a key contributor to improving processes, procedures and tools utilised by the function.
As a Senior Planning Engineer, you are required to be planning focused, confident in running your own project as well as working effectively within a team. You will be joining a growing consultancy team working on a variety of contracts within multiple sectors.
This is a full-time position with a flexible approach to home working to promote well-being and it will be predominantly home-based but will require occasional office attendance in London and / or Manchester as per business needs.
You will be required to undertake short-term or long-term commissions to address a variety of customer needs. Candidates with a track record of cost management at pre and post contract; working on contracts through the development cycle to the delivery through the construction phase would be preferred.
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Adherence to Health & Safety practices
- Adherence to the Costain Way and project specific procedures
- Collection of all data required to prepare Level 3 Programme Baselines
- Raising of activities and coding structure in the propriety software Primavera P6 (including the importance of correct WBS awareness & alignment)
- Co-ordination of logical links between engineering, procurement and construction
- Calculation of activity durations from estimates and critical path identification
- Submission and formal approval of Baselines
- Exchange of electronic planning data with departments and clients
- Liaison with the procurement department and suppliers regarding equipment required on site dates
- Liaison with site planners and subcontractors for site execution timings
- Level 3 & 4 updating from: engineering, procurement & site planner feedback
- Scheduling of Programme activities on a weekly, bi-weekly, monthly basis
- Input/production and issue of weekly updated 6 week look-aheads
- Introduction and analysis of approved changes into the Programme
- Programme Risk Analysis and What-If scenario exercises
- Production of Ad-Hoc Programmes as required
- Analysis of schedule update data and communication of trends to relevant parties
- Production and distribution of reports & graphics, including EVM and forecasting
- Tracking of Key Dates and relevant KPI’s
- Attendance at relevant project, progress and planning meetings
- Costain and client planning resources
- Design/Engineering/Procurement/Construction Departments
- Estimating & Change Control
- Site Planner
- Suppliers and Subcontractors
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Primavera (P6) trained and experienced
- Previous planning experience in a similar role ideally within the Water sector
- Proactive and enthusiastic approach
- Confident communication skills with departments and clients
- Mobility to travel to sites and client locations as required
- Experience in building cost and resource loaded plans
- Experience of Earned Value Analysis
- Experience / understanding in the interpretation of estimating, scheduling, programming and risk tools
- High level of numeracy and excellent analytical skills
- Excellent MS Office skills
- Relevant formal qualification for the position
- Knowledge of contracts, including NEC and Extension of Time calculations
- Relevant experience in Project Controls and/or Project Delivery, preferably in a highly regulated environment
- MSP competent (but not essential)
- The confidence to manage teams and communicate at all levels, driving commitments and improvements to meet commercial and technical objectives and deadlines.
QUALIFICATIONS
- HNC/HND, degree qualified or experience in a planning related discipline
- APM Project Management Qualification
- APMG International Project Planning and Control Practitioner or equivalent
- PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
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
