Senior Planner MEP

Watford, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

Description And Requirements

Skanska Building Services are experts in Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) engineering. We have extensive experience of delivering a huge range of projects in a wide variety of sectors, including commercial, educational, Defence and Data Centres.

Our team are looking for a Planner to join the team on one of our projects in Hertfordshire.

The purpose of the role will be to meet the requirement to work on a live Construction project leading the planning requirements and chairing collaborative planning meetings. Predominantly site based but will be required to visit central office meetings on occasion.

You’ll:

• Contribute to 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.
• Contribute towards the management of the bid and project planning / programming strategic plan
• 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, specific to MEP, as required by the bid and project planning and programming strategic plan - Including as a minimum, the Master Integrated Programme including Design, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning and Handover Programmes and any major MEP Trade Package Programmes.
• Support use of 4D Planning if required by clients
• Supply chain & subcontractor management
• Development & implementation of Project Controls Practice
  
  

We’re looking for:

HNC/Degree qualification in a construction related subject or trade qualifications

Good working knowledge of Planning Software (Asta PowerProject / Primavera)

An appreciation of 4D planning software tools including Synchro.

What you'll do:

• New software and innovative planning ideas produced and trialled on projects.
• Production of reports and schedules.
• Support the project lead produce scenarios, critical paths and narrative to support claims.
• Produce the weekly reports and issue to supply chain while communicating clearly to the site team any issues or trends that raise concern
• Run and ensure the EVMs, weekly meeting, monthly reports etc. are all up to date.
• Run and complete weekly EVM on time for project reporting while doing induvial updates with each discipline
• Update and keep track of KPIs outlined in business plan for internal reporting.
  
  

What you'll bring to the role:

• Deliver Results
• Communicate
• Collaborate
• Improve our business
  
  

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 recruitment@skanska.co.uk 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: recruitment@skanska.co.uk

Closing date

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

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