Linear Recruitment have an exciting opportunity for a well experienced Planner with Civils and Infrastructure experience to join a Tier 1 Main Contractor

The companies Planners all come from a site background as this role involves using your site experience to provide support to sites teams in, finding solutions to engineering problems, ensuring that project programmes are current, consistent and accurate by regular interface with the project site management and relevant regional management team. The primary role is to prepare and communicate project programmes and to manage change on the programmes in accordance with the NEC contract requirements

Key Responsibilities

At least monthly, forensically review each project programmes, ensuring change is being captured and appropriately recorded.

Ensure that programmes are regularly updated to meet contractual requirements, as built records, and progress. Review two-weekly look-ahead programmes.

Review site records including contractual notices and communications in relation to programme matters. Ensure programme submissions and acceptance is contractually compliant.

Review project change register in parallel with the works delivered and the contract.

Review the project risk & opportunities register.

Review / facilitate entitlement not previously captured by site team.

Assist the site team to contractually protect programme entitlement and facilitate EOT claims.

Provide advice and assistance on planning, programming, methods of construction and solutions to engineering problems.

Where necessary, support project teams and communicate with client to recover change.

Equal Opportunities

The company are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

They also place high importance on our inclusive recruitment policy and will do our very best to support those applicants who may need adjustments in order to take part in the recruitment process.

Skills Required

The ideal candidate will have a wide experience of working on civil engineering sites with an engineering or site management background. The role may suit someone who has reached Site Agent or PM level who possesses planning expertise and wants to focus more on this technical role moving forward.

They're after someone with good communication skills who has experienced with MS Project, Asta Powerproject or Primavera P6. The successful candidate will also have experience managing construction programmes using the NEC for of contract and have highways experience

This is a site based and/or regional office-based role focusing on our work in Kent and Sussex, with a requirement to travel to sites in the southeast region

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

Benefits Package

Life assurance cover (4x annual salary)

Company pension scheme (we match up to 8%)

25 days holiday (pro rata) plus bank holidays (with an option of buying more holiday)

Extensive training programmes

Cycle-to-work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme and Employee benefits platform

Company car / car allowance

Free on-site parking

Company social calendar, regular fun days and a broad range of charity events

The Great Escape = leaving work early every Friday