Planning Manager

Watford

Permanent Salary + Package

The Planning Manager will support the Head of Planning within the Pre-Construction Planning team. They will lead the development and production of a tender programmes and supporting information; ensuring it complies with the Contract and Works Information.

Duties

* Manage the planning on the tender to produce the plan and programme for submission.

* Communicate the plan to everyone involved including external stakeholders.

* Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction.

* Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.

* Communicate and gain approval from the bid/project team, the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan utilizing visual aids and graphics developed from concept and detailed drawings.

* Liaise and negotiate with suppliers communicating proposed methods and sequence.

* Assist the bid team to evaluate supply chain quotations/methodologies that relate to programme.

* Manage the resource and cost loading of the programmes in liaison with the Estimating team to produce a commercial forecast if required.

Person Specification

* The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years' experience since graduation on civil engineering projects.

* Able to digest high level of information and provide expanded detailed analysis using their work experience.

* Proactive in providing information and contributing to the quality submission for the Bid with relation to Programme and Methodology items.

* Understanding of BIM and its implications and value proposition within the organisation.

* A willingness to incorporate new evolving technologies such as AI into their workflows

If you are interested and would like further details, please don't hesitate to get in touch