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Role: Planner
Location: Leeds / Manchester
Division: GRAHAM Building
Benefits: Car Allowance; Subsidised Private Medical Cover; Life Assurance Scheme; Contributory Pension
It’s an exciting opportunity to join our team as an experienced Planner. This role offers hybrid working, with a split between site, office (Leeds / Manchester) and home working. So, you'd enjoy the best of both worlds, with the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues face-to-face, while also having the flexibility to work from home.
Our culture is one of exceeding expectations. We never settle for second best and strive to surprise our customers with our understanding of their marketplace and our ability to overcome barriers to deliver quality and innovative outcomes. This culture attracts the right talent, and our team is friendly, sociable, and flexible. Best of all, we all feel valued as employees.
Requirements:
- Minimum 8 years industry experience of general Construction / Building projects
- Proficiency in Asta Power project Essential
- Capability to take planning process from tender to contract close out, contract and target programmes in sufficient detail to add value to contract in terms of contractual arrangements and progress / forecast information
- Ability to communicate the planning strategy to the wider team, project teams and senior management.
- Accountable for the provision of expertise and systems for the planning and scheduling and project controls across a variety of tenders and live projects, thus promoting good planning practice to a recognised company standard across all projects.
- Ensure that all tenders and projects are planned to a standard meeting industry and company good practice thus reducing risk / exposure to project margins from time related issues.
- To manage the planning, programming and progress control as an integral member of the management team, responsible for all aspects of tender and project planning, programming and progress monitoring, including information flow, procurement, and site works
- To liaise with clients, designers, subcontractors and suppliers regarding all matters relating to planning and programming
- Ensuring the production of fully integrated programmes in the format required by the customer and project team that includes design, procurement, consents, construction and commissioning.
- To prepare and present reports on programme and progress on all aspects of the project, and to attend and contribute to site meetings and other associated meetings.
This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged and the range of duties to be undertaken. It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder at regular intervals.
Our Commitment
We are proud to say that we are a committed Equal Opportunities Employer and we aim to be the first choice for people from all backgrounds. We seek to promote respect for the individual and equality of opportunities. We believe that everyone should be treated solely on the basis of personal merit and contribution throughout their GRAHAM career journey and not on the value of artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences.
We are only able to consider applications from individuals who are eligible to live and work in the UK, as per Home Office regulations. Please check your eligibility with the regulations before applying. Individuals with a current time restricted right to work in the UK, should contact the Human Resources team in the first instance.
A basic disclosure may be requested if security clearance is required by 3rd party clients and a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position. Our Access NI/Vetting and Barring Scheme Policy and Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available upon request.
GRAHAM reserves the right to carry out checks to ensure the validity of an applicant’s experience and/or qualifications and we expect all applicants to comply with any such requests for information. Failure to do so or evidence of any falsification of information will lead to either removal from the recruitment process or if already in employment potential termination of contract through the company disciplinary procedure.
