Senior Planner

The Vacancy

Wates have terrific opportunity for a Senior Planer to join our team based out of our London and Warrington offices. As Senior Planner, you will provide an effective and professional planning and programming service for pre-contract and key projects across the country. Please note that this is a site and office-based role.

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

To be successful in this role, you will have strong commercial acumen and a strong understanding of Planning processes from a construction fit-out perspective within a likeminded business. You will also 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 is essential.

DUTIES

• Instigate and monitor a balanced suite of performance measurement criteria throughout a project’s lifecycle
• Creating construction schedules and methodologies for tenders to support the estimating team.
• Updating schedules based on site feedback, conducting critical path analysis, and providing accurate progress reports to stakeholders.
• Ensure proper integration of design and procurement elements of programmes with operations.
• Produce integrated tender programme and method statement and present proposals to settlement meetings.
• 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.
• Identifying potential delays, bottlenecks, or constraints early and developing mitigation strategies to maintain targets.

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.