Are you a Senior Construction Planning professional?  Then perhaps you can leave your mark on HMP Glasgow, one of Scotland's largest construction projects, conveniently located circa 10 miles North East of the Glasgow city.  We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Planner join our HMP Glasgow planning team overseeing one of Scotland's largest ever construction projects.   This could be your opportunity to get involved in delivering modern new-build custodial facility,  delivering a secure, energy efficient and high specification campus for 2000 inmates and staff.  

Location: Glasgow, Scotland  

Contract: Permanent, full time, permanent, flexibility can be considered simply outline in your application.  

What will you be responsible for?  

As senior planner you will work strategically with the planning lead and work closely with project leadership and delivery teams to assist them in developing realistic target construction programmes for large, high value work fronts.  In the role you will retain an overall monitoring capacity for complex projects to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with project needs offering subject matter expertise on planning elements to the  project leadership.

What could your day to day look like?

It may look like, but not be limited to:

• Managing aspects of planning, phasing, programming and sequencing for our tendering activity, including the coordination of design, commercial and production activities into one truly Integrated Programme.
• Creating of look ahead programmes, individual trade package programmes.
• Monitor and update progress and undertake regular progress monitoring drop lines. 
• Developing ideas to drive improvement and consistency in the timely delivery of our preconstruction preferred bids and our live projects. 
• Supporting and mentoring project leads to ensure they have the technical software skills to produce their own regular look ahead programmes.
• Advise on affect of any project slippage on existing programmes and update accordingly.
• Work closely with Project teams to assist in the production of accurate progress reports.

Who are we looking for? (Skills and experience)  

Individual who can demonstrate;

• Experience in a planning role within a main contractor delivering large construction projects.
• You will be comfortable using planning software - Asta / Primavera or Microsoft Project.
• Good construction technical knowledge across relevant work packages
• Excellent communication skills, able to work across teams in an advisory capacity and collaborate across departments.
• Keen eye for detail, ability to draw on project experience to identify and mitigate programme risks
• Highly organised and able to work to multiple deadline
• Ability to share knowledge and expertise with team members and stakeholders, communicating concepts clearly

Required  (Qualifications and Accreditations)  

• Relevant qualification in construction management or engineering discipline (HND Min)
• Full UK Driving License

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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier