Senior Planner

Kier Group


Date: 2 days ago
City: Plymouth
Contract type: Contractor
We're looking for Senior Planner to join the Construction team based in Plymouth.

Location: Plymouth

Contract: Permanent

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Planner, you will be working across the Pre-Construction & Construction Delivery Teams to offer planning expertise on multiple projects at tender, PCSA and delivery stages of projects that can range from £5M - £100M+ in value.

The Senior Planner will retain an overall development & monitoring capacity for complex projects to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with project requirements.

Your day-to-day tasks will include but not be limited to:

  • Producing fully integrated programmes incorporating all disciplines (i.e. design, commercial, construction) based on output rates & benchmarking, with sufficient time risk allowances, terminal float / buffer to contractual completions and agreement with trade packages
  • Production & monitoring of tender event schedule (TES) / procurement schedule
  • Producing site logistics, scaffold schedules, temporary power & water requirements, temporary work schedules
  • Developing information for tender settlements including benchmarking
  • Liaising with sub-contractors
  • Attending regular site visits


Who are we looking for?

This Role Of Senior Planner Is Great For You

  • Have construction planning experience gained within the main contractor environment.
  • You have a solid history of working on build tenders and live projects between £5M - £100M+ in value.
  • You are an experienced user of Asta Powerproject software.
  • Able to use Bluebeam (oir similar) for take off's, logistic plans etc.
  • You have strong knowledge of JCT & NEC contract conditions and how this affects planning.
  • Experience in developing claims / CE's.


We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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