Parkinson Gray Associates is the leading recruitment agency in the Yorkshire region and within the building services sector. Our client, a major building services contractor, has engaged us to assist them with recruiting an M&E Planner.

As an M&E Planner, you will be working across multiple projects in various sectors, including Residential, Healthcare, Education, and Industrial.

Your day to day will include:

• Producing programmes ensuring that all essential design, procurement, and construction activities are captured and logically linked to identifying the critical path.

• Collate & validate project progress & programme constraints and report to Senior Management

• Regular visits to sites to conduct review of progress and review with team delays, risks, and critical path analysis.

• Ability to produce detailed programmes and options quickly as required by clients.

• Develop relationships with internal teams, consultants, and clients.

• Work closely with the Site Team to manage all programme and planning activities on the allocated project

• Prepare short-term programmes and carry out any project-specific exercises such as reprogramming and allocating resources.

• Attend meetings as required, including team meetings, sub-contractor, and design meetings.

• Monitor any changes and assess the impact on the agreed programmes.

• Where applicable, carry out delay analysis and prepare reports to assist with any EOT applications.

• Suggest programme recovery actions or programme betterment opportunities.

• Maintain full change log records for all programmes, as per the Planning Process.

Some essential requirements we're looking for in an MEP Planner are:

• Intermediate or advanced level user of Elecosoft PowerProject

• Excellent MEP knowledge in terms of the infrastructure, installation, and commissioning sequences of M&E services.

• Excellent knowledge of the construction process from feasibility to handover

• Excellent appreciation of the issues and challenges of developing and managing project programmes for building projects through all stages.

• Proven understanding of the full project cycle and any relative constraints.

• Excellent IT skills and relevant knowledge of Planning software, including Asta PowerProject/MS Project