Planner, Engineering, Civil Engineering

Job Purpose

We are seeking an experienced Planner to support the successful delivery of a major hospital upgrade and rebuild project in West Yorkshire on a 3 day a week basis.

The role will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring detailed project programmes throughout all phases of the works, ensuring that project objectives, milestones, and client requirements are achieved.

The successful candidate will possess strong planning and scheduling expertise, with proven experience using ASTRA Power project within large-scale construction projects, ideally within healthcare, public sector, or complex live operational environments.

Key Responsibilities

* Develop, maintain, and update detailed project programmes using ASTRA Power project.

* Produce baseline programmes, target programmes, short-term look-ahead schedules, and progress updates.

* Monitor project progress against programme milestones and identify potential delays, risks, and opportunities.

* Work closely with project managers, site teams, subcontractors, consultants, and client representatives to gather progress information and programme data.

* Analyse critical paths and advise project teams on mitigation and recovery strategies where required.

* Prepare weekly and monthly programme reports, dashboards, and progress presentations for internal and client-facing meetings.

* Support the preparation and assessment of extension of time submissions, change management processes, and programme impact assessments.

* Coordinate planning activities across multiple work streams including demolition, refurbishment, new build, MEP installations, commissioning, and handover phases.

* Ensure programme compliance with contractual requirements and project delivery strategies.

* Assist in resource and logistics planning to support efficient project execution.

* Participate in planning workshops, risk reviews, and progress meetings with stakeholders