Pre-construction Planner – Collen, Dublin
Collen
Location: Ireland (Hybrid)
Department: Preconstruction & Bid Team
Reports to: Senior Preconstruction Planner / Bid Director
Collen Construction is recruiting a Preconstruction Planner to support our bid and early delivery functions. This role is ideal for ambitious junior planners, or experienced site engineers/managers who want to move into planning and shape how major projects are delivered from the very beginning.
You will work within a high-performing preconstruction team, contributing to programmes on large-scale data centres, pharma facilities, power infrastructure, public works, and complex commercial projects. You will learn how delivery strategy is built at the preconstruction stage.
Key responsibilities:
- Assist in developing tender and preconstruction programmes under the guidance of senior planning and bid leaders
- Translate drawings, design briefs, logistics constraints, and procurement requirements into workable sequencing
- Work with technical leads and site stakeholders to reflect real buildability, not academic assumptions
- Support the creation of phasing strategies, enabling works scopes, commissioning allowances and critical paths
- Maintain planning logs, programme assumptions, and risk notes
- Contribute to structured programme narratives for bid submissions
- Engage with specialist contractors and design partners to gather technical input
- Validate durations using first principles, historic benchmarks, and feedback from delivery teams.
Who we’re looking for
You’ll fit this role if at least one of the below applies:
1. Junior / Intermediate Planner
- Experience with Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project (formal or self-taught)
- Some involvement in programming, commissioning plans, lookaheads, or tender support
- Curious, organised, and good at translating drawings into sequence and logic
2. Site Engineer, MEP Coordinator or Site Manager Ready for Change
- Hands-on delivery experience — you understand how jobs are actually built
- Familiar with programmes, sequencing, subcontractor coordination, logistics and project workflow
- Keen to step off the tools/site and into early-stage project strategy and planning
- Strong communicator who can explain project realities confidently
- We value real construction experience as much as software knowledge
Ideal skills and attributes
- Solid grasp of construction phasing, access, resourcing, or commissioning logic
- Basic ability to work with programmes or planning tools — or willingness to learn fast
- Comfortable asking questions, challenging unrealistic assumptions, and learning from senior planners
- Able to interpret drawings, method statements, or tender documents logically
- Calm, organised, and capable of working in a deadline-driven environment
What we offer
- Direct mentorship from highly experienced planners and bid leaders
- Exposure to landmark projects across Europe and the UK
- Structured career progression in Planning and Bid Management.
- Opportunity to pivot your career away from execution and into strategic planning
- Education and professional development support.
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