Assistant Construction Planner - Leeds
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| Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
| Location | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Area | Yorkshire and Humberside, England |
| Sector | ConstructionConstruction - Planner |
| Salary | benefits |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | remoteapi |
| Job Ref | 895161_1674566713 |
| Job Views | 587 |
- Description
Assistant Planner
Leeds
The Opportunity
My client is a national development and construction business based in Leeds, with a £100m+ turnover. They are looking to recruit 2 Assistant Planners to strengthen their existing planning team, as the business pipeine is growing.
The Role
The business is looking for an Assistant Planner, to assist the planning team to provide and develop programme, logistics and build methodologies in support of work winning opportunities. Reporting to the Planner/Senior Planner, you would also assist the planning team to provide and develop fully integrated design, procurement and construction programmes to suit the demands of Project Delivery.
Key Accountabilities
All employees are expected to understand their responsibilities and carry out their role in line with the Company Management System, i.e. complying with our policies, procedures, processes and tools. In addition to enabling successful project delivery, this ensures that all roles are carried out in line with our ISO Accreditations (as listed below), against which you will be periodically audited against.
ISO 9001 Quality Management System
ISO 45001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System
ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
Preconstruction
Assist the planning team to, develop a detailed tender programme based upon and incorporating:-
- Work loaded quantities for major elements
- Input form key supply chain partners
- Recognition and validation of resource availability (labour, plant, materials and manufactured items)
- Recognition of procurement lead times
- Integration of design programme including approval process
- Recognition of statutory approvals and discharge of Planning Conditions
- Acknowledged site constraints
- Client milestones
- Provide planning operational and build methodology input to bid submission.
- Attend interviews and presentations as part of the work winning process, ensuring that customer/project stakeholder needs are understood and input is customer focused.
- Participate in the formulation of contractors' proposals.
- Develop construction sequence layouts and logistics diagrams to support the programme and build methodology.
- Assist in the analysis of subcontract returns in respect of anticipated programme, lead in times and preliminary allowances.
- Consider, in liaison with the Project Manager, the extent of the temporary works required to suit the chosen construction methodology and undertake the following:-
- Advise the Estimator of what inclusions are necessary within the subcontract package documents for temporary works
- Include in the "Prelim" packages, eg craneage, hoisting, access platforms, scaffold, temporary propping etc the extent of the temporary works which we expect the subcontractors to be responsible for
- Check that subcontract returns, including the prelim packages, include the identified requirements
Ensure that the following planning "tools" are in place:-
Fully integrated design and build programme
Design programme (developed by Design Manager - integrated by Planner)
Procurement schedule
Programme of preliminary allocations for staff, labour and plant
Project Delivery
Assist the planning team to:
- Support project teams in the development of strategic stage programmes required throughout the course of the project.
- Support project teams in the development of countdown to completion programmes and schedules.
- Assist in the process of progress monitoring and record keeping in respect of programme performance.
- Support in developing stage and short term programmes.
- Support weekly planning reviews as required by the particular project demands.
- Undertake independent analysis of site progress to verify project team reports.
- Collate accurate progress outputs to enable future benchmarking.
The Person - Experience/Qualifications
Ideally you will have a degree in a construction discipline or a Postgraduate Diploma. A minimum of an HNC or equivalent vocational experience or working towards qualification.
You will also have or be working towards a CSCS card and Asta and/or 4Projects training.
If this sounds of interest, then please apply or call me direct for a confidential discussion.
