Planning Manager
Location: Halesowen office, Nationwide cover
Talented people are the key to our success
About us:
Would you like to work for a progressive and ambitious company which is also one of the most successful within the UK construction and infrastructure industry?
Morgan Sindall provides national construction and infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners and ourselves.
Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Infrastructure business for an ambitious and talented Planning Manager to work on our M5 Oldbury Project.
We are looking for a Planning Manager who will provide planning management and support to both the pre-contract and contract operations for the business. The right applicant will have experience on Highways England Schemes, and experience of delivery before planning role.
Already experienced as a Planning Manager, you will be competent in project management software preferably Primavera Version 6+, and have extensive knowledge in programme and project management, project planning, including programme controls, project review, and cost and risk analysis.
This is an excellent opportunity to work within a successful, growing and exciting team.
Responsibilities:
As a Planning Manager you will:
- Provide coordinated planning strategies
- Provide programmes as required for pre-construction and construction activities
- Produce and monitor programme and planning activities
- Provide planning direction, training and support to key members of the project team
- Anticipate opportunities for risks in advance and advise on options to resolve
- Produce tender programmes compliant with ITT, tender sum, design (where appropriate), assurance, and methodology agreed with suppliers and bid teams
- Produce other programme tender deliverables as required by bid team
- Deliver presentation of tender programme to both Internal and external customers
- Objectively assess progress of project independently of project team
- Provide detailed support and assistance to the project in order to enable the team to monitor pinch-points on the critical path and test and change logic where previously agreed to either improve upon the baseline programme or to mitigate potential delays
- Produce reports and programme commentary to customers on particular reporting requirements
- Produce programmes, reports and / or extract filters as required by the project team, including indication of deviation from the baseline programme
- In conjunction with the commercial team, produce earned value analysis data in compliance with the customer and Morgan Sindalls’ requirements
- Formally issue programme updates to the customer as required by the contract
- Attend progress meetings with internal and external customers and deliver presentation on project progress
- Acquire full conversance with planning software system and ensure upgrades are understood and implemented
- Maintain awareness of current Morgan Sindall health and safety requirements and changes
- Effectively communicate bid strategy and solutions to construction team
- Influence and support team members to innovate and achieve optimum solutions
- Provide feedback on objectives and identify training and development needs
- Assist in the preparation of submission documents
- Attend post tender negotiations with a view to taking increased responsibility
- Proactively offer problem solving ideas and solutions
Already experienced as a Planning Manager, you will be educated to professional level with a relevant degree or equivalent in a core business discipline. You will have experience of working on multi-discipline Civil Engineering projects.
About the Highways Team:
Our projects encompass motorway widening, congestion relief, safety improvement and bypass schemes. Recent work includes M62 Smart Motorways, Lincolnshire’s new A1073 bypass, the A1 Improvement scheme from Dishforth to Barton in North Yorkshire, and the M74 Completion Project through central Glasgow, Scotland’s largest infrastructure scheme. Under Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) schemes, we engage with our customers as early as possible to maximise innovation, efficiency and cost savings.
Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.
Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.