Senior Planner

Equans Sci-Tech is seeking a Senior Planner to be based on a project site in Bradford to assist the delivery of our projects. The Senior Planner will have strong NEC contract management experience with Civils, Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) project experience. The role will provide a professional planning services in every stage of the project lifecycle and will monitor the delivery of complex M&E projects within the NEC contractual framework.

The successful candidate will work alongside the project teams, contracts and stakeholders to ensure timely and efficient execution while maintaining compliance with NEC requirements.

• Develop, maintain and update detailed project schedules aligned with NEC4 contract requirements and M&E project specifications.
• Provide planning services as a key part of the project team ensuring the teams are delivering on project time objectives.
• Lead the planning and programming activities for all stages of an NEC4 contract construction project (pre‑construction, delivery, commissioning, and close‑out).
• Ensure compliance with NEC4 planning, reporting, and early warning procedures; prepare and maintain Programme submissions and impact assessments.
• Build strong internal and external relationship with the Planning department and broader project and client teams.
• Communicating with other disciplines within production teams to ensure they are aware of their roles in meeting the programme.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures and planning standards.
• Providing detailed and accurate regular progress reporting to the project team and client as required.
• Summarise projects status upstream to senior management, highlighting any unresolved major risks and potential overruns.
• Manage time and workload to ensure deadlines are met. Highlight any potential work overload/slackening to Line Manager as soon as it is apparent.
• Review processes to enhance planning best practice that can aid and improve performance and consistency, across the project teams and wider planning community.
• Form robust links with all key stakeholders by working closely with senior managers and directors.
• Review projects that have deviated from plan and provide advice on plans and strategy, subsequent cause and effect and contribute to decisions as to the best way forward.

• Competitive salary, car or car allowance and benefits package.
• 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays).
• Life Cover equivalent to 4 times annual salary.
• Company Stakeholder Pension Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (Family Cover).
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year.
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalised support programmes.
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme.
• Access to our growing employee networks including Access Ability (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN Together (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app.

• Proven experience as a Planner or Senior Planner in complex M&E projects within the construction or engineering sectors.
• Significant experience as a Planner/Senior Planner/Lead Planner on major construction or infrastructure projects, ideally under NEC3/NEC4 contracts.
• High competence in progress measurement, reporting, and forensic delay analysis.
• Planning software expertise, preferably in P6 and Asta Power project.
• Ability to manage multiple project programmes running in parallel.
• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of a project lifecycle: design, procurement, construction (structure, architecture, M&E services, process).
• Excellent communication skills; ability to quickly and clearly articulate key issues and to listen and capture concerns of others.
• Attention to Health and Safety matters.
• Strong commercial awareness, especially relating to time/cost/risk interplay on NEC contracts.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel for use in dashboard reporting.
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