Senior Planner

Tilbury Douglas
Tilbury Douglas Construction is a leading UK building, infrastructure, engineering and fit-out company. We deliver vital projects across a range of sectors including health, education, highways, justice, defence, aviation, water and environment. We are headquartered in the UK and have a workforce of circa 1,200 highly experienced colleagues.

We offer a competitive salary attached to this role and a variety of company benefits also. Please see the benefits section below.

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** Role Summary**

We are looking for an experienced Senior Planner to join our Water Division supporting our Yorkshire Water framework projects.

**What you will be doing**
- **Understanding the Project**: Assimilate the project brief, associated documents and specifications and request any additional information to improve programme accuracy.
- **Programme Development**: Work with design and construct teams to develop production methodologies, work sequences and pre-contract and contract programmes.
- **Collaborative Planning**: Arrange and facilitate collaborative planning sessions with appropriate stakeholders (including suppliers and Thames Water) throughout project development stages. Assist project teams in producing short and medium-term programmes reflecting collaborative planning outputs.
- **Programme Validation**: Arrange and facilitate programme validation workshops to ensure programme accuracy, logic, clear critical path identification, adequate and appropriately placed time risk allowances, etc.
- **Progress Updates**: Update project progress working directly with project teams and suppliers. This will involve virtual and actual site and pre-assembly works visits to verify progress.
- **Progress Reporting**: Produce accurate monthly progress reports for TDW and Yorkshire Water.
- **Best Practice**: Implement our internal “Planning Best Practice Guide” capturing and adding new best practice as it happens.
- **3D Model**:When appropriate integrate the programme with digital model so that projects can be built virtually to increase stakeholder understanding and improve safety, logic, efficiency, accuracy, etc.
- **Time Risk**:Identify and assess programme risks and work with project teams to produce mitigation plans. Identify alternative methodologies/sequences that reduces delivery risks.
- **Output Data**:Monitor and capture actual output and productivity performance data and use this to continually improve project team performance programme accuracy/reliability.

**What we will need from you**
- Previous planning and/or project delivery theoretical and practical experience in a manufacturing or construction environment is essential.
- You must be proficient using planning software including resource management functions.
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical, problem-solving, management and organisational skills.
- Some degree of knowledge of the Health and Safety Requirements within the industry to assist in the preparation of Construction Programmes.
- Can work independently and as part of a diverse team.
- Knowledge of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), Lean Construction, Agile Programme Management, Production Thinking and other techniques that will assure programme and quality performance in a modern manufacturing environment.
- Excellent communication and engagement skills - ability to bring the whole team on the MMC journey including the client and our supply chain.
- CSCS Card & SMSTS safety qualification is desirable.
- Membership of a Professional body is encouraged
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with a range of people. A good ‘Team Player’

**What you can expect from us**

You can expect a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

- Car Allowance
- 26 days annual leave (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday)
- Private medical insurance for yourself (with the option to buy family cover)
- Matched pension scheme up to 8%
- Flexible and Agile working (dependent on your role)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible Benefits scheme which includes benefits such as cycle to work
- Access to Tilbury Douglas retail discount scheme
- 2 days volunteering opportunities