Lead Planner

We are looking for an experienced Electrical Lead Planning Manager to lead the Electrical Construction Planning team at Hinkley Point

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You will coordinate electrical planning across the assigned programme or delivery area, ensuring that detailed construction schedules and lookaheads are integrated, achievable and aligned with key programme milestones. The role will provide visibility of construction readiness, interfaces, constraints and schedule risks, helping to support safe, coordinated and predictable delivery.

• Leading and coordinating the Electrical Construction Planners
• Developing and maintaining integrated Level 5 electrical construction schedules
• Coordinating four-week electrical lookaheads and contributing to the overall 16-week lookahead
• Ensuring activities entering the four-week delivery window are sufficiently developed and ready for construction
• Managing planning interfaces across mechanical, HVAC, civil and commissioning activities
• Producing weekly electrical planning and progress-review information
• Providing electrical planning input into the wider MEH programme

You will be an experienced construction planner with the confidence to lead a team and coordinate complex, multidisciplinary programmes.

You should have:

• An HNC in an engineering discipline
• Relevant experience within planning and construction environments
• Strong experience developing and managing detailed construction schedules
• The ability to identify constraints, interfaces and programme risks
• Clear communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Previous leadership or line-management experience
• Ability to gain a security clearance.

You will also demonstrate a collaborative, solutions-focused approach, reflecting the MEH Alliance values of humility, positivity, respect, clarity and solidarity.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors:
Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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