Senior Planner

  • Wates Group
  • Oxford, Oxfordshire
  • Aug 02, 2022
Full time Construction

Job Description

We have an opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our Construction team in our Northern Home Counties region. The Senior Planner will provide an effective and professional planning and programming service for pre-contract and project teams.

Wates Construction is a UK-wide contractor specialising in maximising value for customers in the public and private sector, with an uncompromising focus on safety and quality. We have a proven track record in all our core markets: commercial and mixed-use developments, education and student accommodation, heritage, local authority frameworks, inner-city residential, senior living, industrial and research, we're also experts in sustainability and ensuring we create a better tomorrow.

As a Senior Planner, some of your Key Accountabilities will include:

  • Instigate and monitor a balanced suite of performance measurement criteria throughout a project's lifecycle
  • Ensure proper integration of design and procurement elements of programmes with construction
  • Produce integrated tender programme and method statement and present proposals to settlement meeting
  • Change management: review programme effect of changes and advise on EOT issues
  • Produce schedules as well as obtain and analyse quotes for all time-related preliminaries
  • Accountability for the most complex, largest or several significant projects and manage all to a successful conclusion with minimal supervision, this may involve supervising other Planners


We are looking for a professional Senior Planner with knowledge of commonly used forms of construction contracts as well as an awareness of a variety of performance measurement techniques, such as Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Analysis and use of Key Performance Indicators.

To be successful in this role you will be a qualified Planner with effective communication skills and solid experience on Construction projects of over £30 million.

Please note that candidates represented by Agencies will not be considered at this time.