Planner - Salford, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Planner

We're looking for a Planner to join our Kier Rail team and assist on several rail related projects across the Northwest

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea, or air? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference.

Supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment

Location:
Greater Manchester, Northwest

Business Area:
Kier Transportation, Rail

Contract:
Full Time, Permanent

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Planner, you'll be working within Kier Transportation, supporting them with all planning aspects on a wide range of rail infrastructure projects for a diverse customer base.

Our projects range from major improvements to complete construction of new stations, with specialist teams, we manage complex works from conception through to delivery.

Your day to day will include:

Working with the project teams, develop and manage the short-term programme process, including reporting to the client.
Complete contract programme updates and associated narrative report.
Develop the detailed construction programme with the operations team (project managers, agents, engineers, and foremen).
Actively manage and implement a disciplined approach towards Short Interval Control and agreed reporting schedule, in line with project performance expectations
Develop phasing diagrams which explain a section or sections of the programme.

What are we looking for?
This role of Planner is great for you if:

Demonstrable experience in contract planning for a main contractor, including contribution to and execution of change management.
Experience within a civils rail project, with complex constraints and multiple stakeholders is desirable.
Extensive experience of using Primavera. You'll also be comfortable with the Microsoft Office suite and have robust and efficient documentation and record keeping.
Previous operational site delivery background is also desirable.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for use. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more.

Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

You can see our D&I action plan here.