Senior Planner

Senior Planner
Sector Engineering
Temporary assignment 6 months (potential for extension)
Role Location: London/ Birmingham/ Manchester/ Bristol (site based)
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 6 months
Hours per Week: 40
Payrate : £45.00 per hour (PAYE) £50.00 (Umbrella)
Outside IR35

Role Overview
As a Senior Planner in our Transportation Division, you'll bring your unique skills and background to a variety of exciting projects and tenders. This role offers the opportunity to build a career as a professional planner while making a sustainable difference and shaping the future of our business. This role will be working for a global design, engineering, and project management consultancy.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Controls: Provide comprehensive project controls to project teams and clients.
• Team Leadership: Supervise junior team members, allocate tasks, and provide feedback.
• Client Interaction: Attend and guide client progress meetings, ensuring project completion on time and within budget.
• Reporting: Deliver project performance data, schedules, and reports in a timely manner.
• Issue Management: Identify project deviations and communicate issues to senior management.

Requirements

• Technical Expertise: Detailed understanding of transportation technologies (Signalling, Track, Structures, Electrification & Plant, Telecoms).
• Project Planning: Experience in programming multi-disciplinary engineering design and understanding engineering activities.
• Software Proficiency: Expert user of Primavera P6.
• Independent Work: Ability to perform project control duties with limited supervision.
• Contract Knowledge: Experience with various forms of contracts, including NEC.
• Risk and Cost Analysis: Proficient in schedule risk and cost analysis, claims, and enterprise systems.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present complex matters professionally.
• Analytical Approach: Proactive, structured, and analytical with attention to detail and data quality.

Qualifications

• Engineering Background: Qualification in Mechanical/ Civil Engineering.
• Professional Membership: Member of the APM.
• Project Experience: Experience working on large projects up to £50m.

Are you looking to join a dynamic, world-class project controls team and contribute to the successful delivery of some of the UK's largest transportation infrastructure projects?

Submit your CV now for immediate review - interviews to take place as soon as possible view a view to a start thereafter.