Planning Manager or Senior Planner MEP Projects

Planning Manager or Senior Planner (M&E/Building Services)

Barrow In Furness

Permanent position offering competitive salary, with Car + Flexible Benefits

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Planning Manager to join our team. Working as part of the regional senior leadership team, you will lead and manage an effective planning function on a nuclear project in Barrow In Furness, supporting projects and operations to deliver the long term business objectives.

Based full time on site, this is a permanent staff position with NG Bailey and we are also open to someone at Senior Planner Level. Due to the nature of work on this project candidates must be able to obtain security clearance.

Responsibilities

Key deliverables in this role are:

• Demonstrate appropriate health and safety leadership to ensure the safety first and foremost message is visible and alive throughout all activities.
• Ensure that all planning related activities are carried out in compliance with contractual obligations, internal processes and external legislation governing business objectives.
• Lead and develop the planning team to provide effective planning support to the business
• Ensure integrated planning meetings are arranged with relevant project stakeholders to collaboratively develop and agree project plans.
• Lead planning functions to contribute to bid activity and work in conjunction with the work winning team
• Ensure the planning resource is allocated to work closely with relevant project stakeholders in order to agree contract baseline programmes. Analyse current and future workloads to assess capability of staff to fulfil requirements.
• Ensure the regional resource planning is managed and owned in accordance with guidance by the divisions, presenting lookahead plans at senior leadership team meetings and feeding into the wider engineering resource plan.
• Lead planning functions to monitor and report progress and productivity against plans.
• Provide planning representation and support for all contract reviews. Ascertain whether projects targets are being achieved and agree any corrective measures where necessary.
• Ensure that time/risk analysis against programmes is performed at regular intervals through the project lifecycle. Ensure all contract programmes are maintained and changes effectively communicated.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Significant planning experience of using Primavera P6 in a planning role
• Experience of working on MEP projects
• Experience in a leadership role

Desirable requirements:

• Experience of regulated environments would be useful but not essential
• Experience of working with NEC3 forms of contract

Benefits

• Car or car allowance,
• Salary sacrifice scheme available on completion of probation
• 25 days holiday per annum, plus bank holidays
• Pension with leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Private healthcare
• Free 24/7 365 Employee assistance program to support mental health and wellbeing (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Discounts
• Personal development programme
• Flexible Benefits

If this is of interest, please apply with an up to date CV, and your salary/package expectations.

Next Steps:

As a business, we're on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We'll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us:

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.