Senior Planner

Part of the Volker Wessels UK Group, Volker Stevin is an industry-leading civil engineering business, providing complex and innovative engineering solutions across a wide range of sectors including maritime, flood risk management, defence, energy, water and regeneration. Collaborating with, and drawing on the specialist skills of the group’s business units we deliver a truly integrated, multidisciplinary service.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join Volker Stevin. The Senior Planner will be the Senior Planner for a number of Volker Stevin projects in the South East region.

Under the supervision of the Planning Manager and Project lead to be responsible for implementing the requirements of the project planning/programme requirements in accordance with the Volker Stevin Planning Standards, ensuring compliance with the business management systems. The role may also have aspects of team management as and when required.

A key part of the role is to establish and maintain positive and effective relationships with the project team, customer, supply chain and the wider planning community, becoming an integrated member of the project team.

Key Accountabilities

Responsible at TENDER STAG to the Planning Manager and Bid Manager for the range of activities involved in the project planning life cycle, which includes:

• Ensuring that the programme content is functionally compliant with the planning procedures and guidance
• Identifying planning scope, programme constraints and contract requirements
• Identifying major quantities and factors that may affect the programme
• Establishing and agreeing construction outputs, project calendars and working hours with operational support and Estimator
• Develop key methods of construction, sequencing, installation and commissioning works and agree with operational support and the Bid Team
• Producing and documenting the planning deliverables including tender planning worksheet, presentations, reports and drive the planning philosophy/strategy
• Produce the Tender Programme and supporting information in accordance with the tender requirements
• Actively value engineering alternatives and identify risks/opportunities
• Generation of time risk quantum and strategy for delivery stage for approval by the Planning Manager/Bid Manager
• Reconciling Volker Stevin and sub-contract plant/labour and major material elements with the Estimator
• Apply resource levelling techniques during programme production for labour, plant and materials
• Interfacing with third parties to identify and resolve issues
• Meets deadlines through effective time management
• Effectively communicates the planning and programme elements at the tender handover meeting.

In addition to the above, at CONTRACT STAGE the Planner is accountable to the Planning Manager and Project Lead for:

• Ensuring that the Contract Programme is produced, managed and maintained in accordance with the Volker Stevin Planning Standards
• The overall planning strategy and the timing/sequence of the contract programme activities
• Maintaining the planning deliverables in the timeframe agreed with the Project Team. These include monthly contract programme updates, monthly programme reporting and submission documentation
• The issue and communication of the Contract Programme to the Project Lead for onward issue to Client and Project Team

In general, the Planner will:

• Be a proficient user of the Volker Stevin suite of planning software and provide guidance to others
• Actively develop their knowledge and experience of planning techniques, tools and competencies
• Continually develop construction techniques knowledge and experience
• Working knowledge of various forms of contract, specifications, methods of measurements, ECI experience, procedures and have the ability to direct focus of teams to required output
• Manage file and data storage within workspace/Asite
• Be an active member of the Volker Stevin and Volker Wessels Planning Community

• Construction Knowledge – Have a broad knowledge of various construction methods and techniques
• Risk & Opportunity – Be able to develop the project time risk strategy and seek opportunity
• Digital Planning – Proficient user of…