Senior Planner

Overview

At Sisk, we create places and infrastructure that shape how people live, work and connect – now and for future generations. As a family‑owned, international construction and engineering group, we offer meaningful careers across building, infrastructure, rail, energy and off‑site manufacturing throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe, where people are supported to grow, make an impact and be part of positive change.

At Sisk, we create places and infrastructure that shape how people live, work and connect – now and for future generations. As a family‑owned, international construction and engineering group, we offer meaningful careers across building, infrastructure, rail, energy and off‑site manufacturing throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe, where people are supported to grow, make an impact and be part of positive change.

The Senior Planner supports the management team in planning and coordinating the design, procurement, and construction activities associated with the project works. The role leads programme and planning management throughout both the pre‑construction and construction phases, ensuring effective scheduling, monitoring, and delivery. The Senior Planner is also responsible for producing regular weekly and monthly reports, providing clear feedback on project progress, performance, and key milestones.

• Ensure Planning assumptions and decisions incorporate Sisk’s Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Produce a construction methodology in close cooperation with the project team to effectively demonstrate the construction techniques and sequencing in order to safely deliver projects.

• Lead in the development of the baseline contract programme, covering all aspects of design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. All elements to be fully logic linked and have a critical path.
• To lead in the preparation of a construction (target) programme highlighting areas of improvement against the contract programme.
• Prepare a tender event programme for the procurement of subcontractors incorporating design release and lead in activities.
• Maintain electronic files and administration of planning and programme documents to facilitate retrieval as required. Utilising the common data environment (CDE).
• Provide all programme information as required support the management team.
• To develop a 4D graphical model, where required or 2D phasing plans. To represent the sequence of build, phasing and logistics.
• Use the construction programme to produce / assist in the production of project prelim books including, but not limited to, staff resource, logistics and temporary works requirements.
• To engage with the supply chain to develop the project programme with regards to design, lead‑in’s, construction periods, plant & labour requirements
• To review risk and opportunities for every programme produced and highlight potential mitigation measures in the programme. Including float and time risk allowances.

• Develop tracking schedules as required to maintain information and control the production of programmes by the subcontractors.
• To keep an as built programme, highlighting where the programme has deviated from the baseline programme.
• Input to change requests as required to advise on programme impacts for approval and instructions as necessary to facilitate the works.
• To use the 4D model and/or 2D phasing information to highlight the current progress position of the programme.
• Produce validated output rates with appropriate clarifications to track live progress on projects, as well as feedback into the pre‑construction department to inform new tenders.
• Undertake proactive peer reviews of…