Career Opportunity: Senior Planner

Due to continued growth, we now have a need for a Senior Planner for our Southern Region for schemes around the Kent area.

At Jackson we are dynamic, innovative, and focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting and varied projects. We want our people to succeed both in work and life and to support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Our 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

Main Duties

• 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.
• Work as a team player and work closely with the Contracts’ Managers to ensure delivery targets are met.
• 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.
• Support the Programme Support Manager in the strategic development of processes and systems as required.

Are you the person we are looking for?

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.

We’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 south east region

Excellent benefits package and personal development opportunities:

We don’t just offer a great place to work with a supportive, family atmosphere. We also offer:

• 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
• Employee benefits platform
• Free on-site parking
• Company social calendar
• Regular fun days and a broad range of charity events
• A supportive business that genuinely wants to help you progress in your career.
• ‘The Great Escape’ - leaving work early every Friday!

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

We 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. We 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. Please do let us know if you require any additional assistance or adjustments.

Due to the high volume of applications, we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within two weeks, please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.