Senior Planner

The Vacancy

We have an opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our Fit Out & Interiors team, Smartspace based out of our offices near Euston, where they will provide an effective and professional planning and programming service for pre-contract and project teams.

Wates Smartspace is a national business, delivering high-quality fit-out, refurbishment and property upkeep projects, enhancing its customers’ physical assets and operating environments. Working with a wide variety of long-standing customers, we have established a strong reputation for delivering projects to tight timescales and in live environments, frequently working around business-critical equipment.

Key Accountabilities include:

• Instigate and monitor a balanced suite of performance measurement criteria throughout a project’s lifecycle
• Ensure proper integration of design and procurement elements of programmes with operations
• Produce integrated tender programme and method statement and present proposals to settlement meeting
• Change management: review programme effect of changes and advise on EOT issues
• Produce schedules as well as obtain and analyse quotes for all time-related preliminaries

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role, you will already have experience of working as a Planner within a similar business and have a knowledge of commonly used forms of construction contracts as well as an awareness of a variety of performance measurement techniques, such as Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Analysis, and use of Key Performance Indicators. We use Asta Power Project, so a working knowledge would be helpful.

We are looking for you to be an excellent communicator at all levels with an eye for detail and accuracy. Organised and able to self-manage of workload, time, and priorities to achieve outputs required.

Membership of CIOB would be desirable and the vacancy is based in London/Southeast

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.