Senior Planner - #150517

Kier Group


Date: 8 hours ago
City: Bridgwater
Contract type: Full time
We're looking for a Senior Planner to join us at Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks for our major environmental mitigation project in the Southwest, Bridgwater Tidal Barrier.

Location: Southwest, commutable weekly to Bridgwater, with some hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible start and finish times

What will you be responsible for?

We're seeking an experienced Senior Planner to to join our team. This role will suit someone with large scale infrastructure project experience, in the NEC contract environment.

Your Day To Day Will Include

  • Lead and deliver all programme and project controls outputs for an NEC contract and be the programme conscience on a flagship environmental mitigation project
  • Produce and review programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, project controls dashboards, reports and programme narratives and undertake analytical assessment of programmes and project metrics, making improvement recommendations
  • Review resource loading, and maintain schedule resources in a Primavera P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work
  • Support earned value analysis of the project, evaluate supply chain and subcontract programmes and ensure compliance with business processes and systems
  • Contribute and support operational and commercial teams on use of collaborative planning, risk and commercial issues to ensure accurate forecasts to the end of the project
  • Establish and maintain internal and external project controls reporting


What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is great for you if you have:

  • Proven background in a similar role, planning large scale infrastructure projects
  • NEC ECC project experience and have a good understanding of commercial and contractual matters
  • The ability to form programmes in Primavera P6
  • Full driving licence.


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.

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