MWH Treatment is looking to strengthen their Planning team with a Senior Planner for our UU region, initially at Oswestry. You will provide services to ensure that project plans have achievable timescales and are accurately monitored and updated.
Directly reporting to the Senior Planning Manager, Their responsibility is to assist other members of the project teams to develop where necessary but essentially monitor, progress & report on contractual programmes. This includes ensuring that both the operational & commercial members of the team are fully briefed on the critical activities & risks of their projects at all times.
Future roles will include development of tender programmes through feasibility and into execution in the AMP8 portfolio.
The Senior Planner will be required to work closely with the commercial department to monitor costs, take ownership of several project plans, drive the project team to deliver to the plan & challenge any delay & deviation. Leading, coaching & guiding junior Planners, you will be viewed as an approachable planning expert who is keen to pass on experience & knowledge to develop others & drive performance improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor progress on site with regular site walks.
- Lead in the delivery of collaborative planning workshops as required.
- Lead the development of Construction phase 4D Planning
- Maintain a baseline programme & measure progress against it
- Liaise with project teams to ensure consistency of key assumptions on methodology & outputs
- Identify opportunities & key risks during the planning process
- Gather, collate & distribute progress information & the reasons for deviations/delays
- Monitor & analyse changes to scope & revise programmes accordingly.
- Develop Cause & Effect entitlement programmes for CEs
- Attend progress/project meetings & present programmes for review.
- Attend site meetings to gather progress information
- Report programme issues to the site management team and Senior Planning Manager
- Distribute regular look ahead programmes
- Ensure an As Built programme is available at project closedown
- Maintain knowledge of site processes
- Record the effects of changes on site & the effects on the contract programme
- Assist with the monthly progress report in line with company & customer requirements
- Build & maintain relationships with the Senior Planning Manager, Project Manager, Commercial team & client representatives
- Assist with the administration of Primavera P6 planning software
- Deliver various planning software training to new users when required
- Work with the estimating team to prepare programmes from tender documentation. Ensuring that they are compliant & realistic
- Prepare programmes in accordance with contract requirements, update them & submit them for acceptance as contractually required