Senior Planner (Defence)

Job description

Description and requirements

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

Our UK-wide building team has built a reputation for high quality offices in Commercial and Mixed-used developments, Healthcare, Custodial, Defence, and Education. Our award-winning projects include 52 Lime Street, 30 St Mary Axe, Bristol Schools, St Bartholomew and the Royal London Hospitals to name a few.

We are now looking for a Senior Planner to join our Buildings team to manage the production of fully integrated programmes, phase sequence plans and method statements from bid stage through construction to final commissioning, handover and occupation together with the monitoring and reporting against such control documents, all in line with bid and project requirements including MEP service installations and commissioning. .

You'll:

• Manage the overall planning process, maintaining a proactive and professional service to the planning, bid and project teams working to the guidelines of the planning and programming strategic plan.
• Manage the bid and project planning / programming strategic plan and support the delivery team in collaborative planning activities, such as short-medium term plans and last planner activities.
• Assist the management team in preparation of method statements to meet the needs of the project
• Manage the delivery and maintenance of all associated programmes as required by the bid and project planning and programming strategic plan - Including as a minimum, the Master Integrated Programme and short-medium term planning programmes, including Design, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning and Handover Programmes
• Ensure contractual and change management programme related aspects are fully complied with including preparation of any time entitlement documentation
• Support the production of 4D programmes and visualisations, to produce digital rehearsals for key and/or critical areas of the works.

We're looking for:

• Demonstrable experience of delivering the planning function on MOD/DIO projects working through bid, PCSA and delivery stages.
• Clear understanding of and demonstrable experience of working with the MOD/DIO in secure environments,
• Demonstrable experience and working knowledge of NEC 3 or 4 contracts on MOD/DIO projects.
• Demonstrable experience of other forms of contract including MPTC and JCT would be highly desirable.
• Excellent working knowledge of Planning Software (Asta Powerproject and/or Primavera)

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [email protected] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [email protected]

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.