Planning Manager
Location: Whitehaven
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.
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 Sindall 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
- 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
- Proactively offer problem solving ideas and solutions
Already experienced as a planning manager, you will be competent in project management software preferably Primavera Version 6+ and you will have extensive experience in programme and project management, project planning, including programme controls, project review, and cost and risk analysis. You will have an understanding of the impact that commercial events and activities have on the baseline programme and will have experience of working on multi-discipline civil engineering or construction projects.
About ISA:
Nuclear
Our work focuses on delivering non-nuclear infrastructure activities in a nuclear environment both for civil and military customers.
Infrastructure Strategic Alliance (ISA)
The ISA is an integrated team which consists of three delivery partners; Sellafield Limited, Morgan Sindall and Arup. Working in joint venture with Arup, Morgan Sindall is responsible for a £1.1 billion long term contract to provide essential infrastructure assets to the Sellafield Ltd site.
We are recruiting talented, motivated and ambitious individuals to join our teams. We have a great opportunity for you to join our ISA team where you get the opportunity to work on specialist projects, grow your skills and progress in your career.
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.
Morgan Sindall has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CV’s from agencies. Please note that any CV’s submitted will be deemed as gifted to Morgan Sindall and any agency terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be null and void.