Construction Planner

Construction Planner Northampton

We are looking for an enthusiastic Planner to join a successful team at a multi-disciplinary main contractor based in Northampton. Our client excels in the delivery of construction projects on a national scale. Their projects vary in value from £10m to more than £60m and are across a range of sectors, including industrial, retail, residential, office, industrial fit out and infrastructure.

They have 2 opportunities:

Planner or Senior Planner for their Civil Engineering division

Planner or Senior Planner to work for their build division.

* Competitive salary

* Car allowance

* 26 days annual leave plus additional long service entitlement

* Business travel

* Pension scheme

* Employee benefits, including a bonus of 5-10%

* Friendly working environment and extremely low staff turnover

* Joining an established and skilled team.

The Role – Planner

* Liaising with the tender team to demonstrate logistics and establish the optimum build sequence, incorporating the agreed earthworks strategy. Highlight any programme concerns & opportunities for each tender.

* Prepare tender programmes with supporting graphics, plus the pricing of associated preliminaries.

* Attending meetings/tender interviews as required, including input into presentations.

* Regular site visits to monitor progress against the suite of programmes referred to above and produce accurate assessments for internal action & client meetings.

* Assessment of the programme impact of variations/change where necessary.

The right person – Planner

* You will have good communication & organisational skills so that you work well, contributing to the success of varying teams that you will support – including multiple sites, tender teams and planning department.

* Computer literate with experience with Asta Powerproject software, plus a good working knowledge of other software, such as Excel and PowerPoint.

* An industry applicable qualification, ONC/HNC, B Eng, NVQ or equivalent experience.

* Demonstration of construction knowledge and the planning of construction activities on multiple projects of varying types to meet deadlines.

* Ideally, you will be located within a reasonable travel distance of their Midlands (Northampton) Head office.

Please contact Sally to apply

Construction Planner / Northampton / Civil Engineering / industrial / contracting