Senior Planner - North West, United Kingdom - Wates

Wates

Verified Company

North West, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our Construction team in Manchester to provide an effective and professional planning and programming service for pre-contract and project teams.

Wates Construction is a UK-wide contractor specialising in maximising value for customers in the public and private sector, with an uncompromising focus on safety and quality.

We have a proven track record in all our core markets:

commercial and mixed-use developments, education and student accommodation, heritage, local authority frameworks, inner-city residential, senior living, industrial and research, we're also experts in sustainability and ensuring we create a better tomorrow.

As a Senior Planner, some of your Key Accountabilities will include:

Instigate and monitor a balanced suite of performance measurement criteria throughout a project's lifecycle
Ensure proper integration of design and procurement elements of programmes with construction
Produce integrated tender programme and method statement and present proposals to settlement meeting
Change management: review programme effect of changes and advise on EOT issues
Produce schedules as well as obtain and analyse quotes for all timerelated preliminaries
Accountability for the most complex, largest or several significant projects and manage all to a successful conclusion with mínimal supervision, this may involve supervising other Planners

We are looking for a professional Senior Planner with knowledge of commonly used forms of construction contracts as well as an awareness of a variety of performance measurement techniques, such as Critical Path Analysis and use of Key Performance Indicators.

To be successful in this role you will be a qualified Planner with effective communication skills and solid experience on Construction projects

The Wates Group, established in 1897, is one of the leading privately-owned construction, residential development, and property services businesses in the UK.

We employ approximately 3,700 people and work with a wide range of public and private sector customers and partners.

Everything we do is guided by our purpose of working together to inspire better ways of creating the places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow.

Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, the Wates Group is committed to the long-term sustainability of the built environment and is working to eliminate carbon from its operations by 2025.

To fulfil our ambition to be a truly inclusive employer and to reflect the richness of the communities in which it is our privilege to work, we are committed to doubling the proportion of women at all levels of our business, encouraging more people with disabilities to work in our sector and to become more ethnically diverse.

In 2021 we won the award for Private Sector Leadership at the National Social Value Awards.

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