We're looking for a Planning Manager to join our Natural Resources team, working on projects in the Thames Valley region (North). In this role you'll lead planning to deliver programmes of work within non-infrastructure schemes like upgrades to wastewater treatment works.

Location:  Working from home and site/offices in the northern Thames valley region as and when required
Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

Responsibilities

We're looking for a Planning Manager to join our NRNN business unit. You'll lead and manage a team of planners to deliver all programme and project controls outputs for a portfolio of works, under IChemE and NEC contract conditions. This work is with Thames Water on their sewage treatment Waste Asset Assurance Programme (WAAP).

Your day to day will include:

• Being the programme and planning conscience on a portfolio of water asset management works
• Contribute as a planning and programme subject matter expert
• Coach, mentor and manage a diverse planning team, working to identify individuals strengths and weaknesses, ensuring that development plans are put in place
• Review, and where required, produce programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, project controls dashboards, reports and programme narratives, from 1^st principles
• Support the commercial team to ensure accurate forecasts, with reference to programme, are produced

What are we looking for?

This Planning Manager is great for you if you have:

• Must have NEC / IChemE contract-based Planning experience, within medium to large scale non-infrastructure project or portfolio work.
• Confidence and experience of managing a planning team.
• Good understanding of commercial and contractual matters and thorough experience and understanding of programming techniques.
• Competency in the use of Primavera P6.
  
  

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.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-CH1