Job Title: Senior Planner
Business Unit: UK Construction
Office Location: Aldgate, London
Role purpose To provide a timely, effective and professional total planning service for proposals and projects within a specific division or allocated live project(s). Dealing with internal and external clients and advising on a regular consultative basis. As expected of a senior role, development of strategic relationships with clients, consultant together with suppliers and contractors is required.
Key accountabilities - Provide total planning service for proposals and projects within a specific business unit or allocated to live project(s) to work at site or office location.
- Ensure company best practice and protocols are adhered to.
- Leads programme-related meetings and forums for planning staff within the specific division.
- Provide input to maintain divisions planning database and input into the Regional database.
- Challenge and review processes to enhance planning best practice that can aide and improve performance and consistency across the business unit and wider planning community.
- Provide support and comfort to all echelons of management that planning related risk is mitigated, adopting a strategic and proactive approach to highlighting and resolving issues and taking an active part in ensuring ongoing review and continuous improvement.
- Form robust links with all key stakeholders by working closely with senior management and functional directors.
- Ensure that planning standards become a key strategic advantage to the business unit and that is being a distinct competitive advantage both internally and externally.
- Review projects that have deviated from plan and provide advice on original plan and strategy, subsequent cause and effect and contribute to decisions as to best way forward.
- Attend and play a lead role in preparation and participation in formal meetings and presentations
- Develop relationships with consultant, suppliers and contractors.
- May be introduced as a specialist advisor to clients (consultancy role).
- Represent business unit in ISG Planning forums and play a key role in the future training and development of the planning function.
Skills & experience - Experience in Cut & Carve Refurbishment, Residential and Office Construction
- In-depth knowledge of the pre-construction and construction process
- Has in-depth, specialist knowledge over a wide number of areas.
- Experience or exposure to forensic planning techniques and contract law
- Has in-depth knowledge of the whole project process from inception through consultant scheme, and detail design/production, procurement, shop drawings and approvals, lead-in, construction, furniture and migration.
- Possesses conceptual planning abilities.
- Wealth of construction technology knowledge and experience
- Conversant in value management and exponent of buildability
- Leads meetings in programme related matters.
- Develops strategic relationships with consultants and specialists
- Expert in planning related software literacy and solutions for programmes/schedules etc.
- Has ability to trouble shoot and act as" radar" early warning system.
Qualifications - Degree, HND or equivalent in construction-related discipline.