Assistant Construction Planner - York, United Kingdom - Portakabin

Portakabin

Verified Company

York, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the opportunity

Join the Portakabin culture of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what is possible to seek the best solutions for our clients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Construction Planner to join our Project Delivery team to proactively prepare and implement building projects within our Sales department based at our Head Office in York.

As an Assistant Construction Planner, you will be reporting to the Construction Planner and will work closely with assisting the multi-disciplined teams in managing the programmes.

As your role within the business progresses, you will experience the full project lifecycle from working on tender management, pre-construction and delivering projects through to completion.

This will in terms give you the experience and exposure to the contractual and commercial elements that you will encouter during the full project delivery.

Role Responsibilities

Contribute to the overall planning process to all levels of the business
Control, Monitor & Analyse project programmes with the project teams
Attend project sites to offer support for the delivery teams
Assist project teams with supply chain programme management
Creating mark ups and phasing plans for project delivery
Housekeeping and administration of programmes
Understand importance of the planning function and helping others around the business

Role Details

Salary: up to £35,000 (dependant on experience)
Company Car
Role based: York
Contract type: Permanent
Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays

Benefits & Opportunities

Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
Working flexibly principles
Contributory pension
Annual performancerelated bonus (noncontractual)
A range of dedicated health and wellbeing services
Employee Assistance Program
A chance to give back to your community with an annual Volunteering Day Off
Fully funded professional qualifications and membership
Cycle to Work Scheme

Essential criteria:

5 GCSE's grade A-C or above or equivalent
Full UK driving licence essential
Understanding of traditional construction methods
Experience of working within construction
Basic understanding of offsite or traditional construction methods

Desirable criteria:

Educated to degree level or equivalent (preferably construction related)
Understanding of project lifecycle and management
Knowledge of construction programming techniques
Measurement and reporting of project progress
Understanding of commercial contracts (JCT, NEC 3/4)
Competent in the use of programming software (ASTA Powerproject)

Even if you do not match all of our 'ideal' criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.

Why Portakabin?
Portakabin exists to bring the wonder of modular building to the world.

Creating precision-engineered buildings, we believe that our people are the key to exploring greater possibilities across our industry, thinking beyond products, to solutions and beyond customers, to the people and societies they serve.

With more than 60 years of expertise, decades of growth and a business that has more than doubled since 2012, Portakabin profitability is strong in both the UK and Europe and our future ambition is to continue this compelling track record of growth.

We put our people at the heart of everything we do, and you will have the job security and development opportunities that are rare in the current climate, so why not join us, and be a part of our continuing growth and success? With exciting future ambitions we couldn't think of a better time for you to join us