MEP Planner

We're looking for an MEP Planner to join our London and Thames Valley team at Kier Mechanical & Electrical.

Location: London.
Hours: Full Time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As an MEP Planner at Kier, you will play a crucial role in developing, maintaining, and monitoring MEP programmes across a range of complex projects. This role combines technical planning expertise with strong communication and coordination skills, supporting both preconstruction and delivery stages. You'll work across the defence, pharmaceutical, commercial, custodial, and education sectors, managing multiple concurrent projects and collaborating closely with construction planners and project stakeholders.

What will you be responsible for?

As an MEP Planner, you'll be working within the planning team, supporting them in delivering successful MEP works on live projects and tenders. Your day to day will include:

• Developing and maintaining detailed MEP programmes using Asta PowerProject, aligned with construction master programmes
• Monitoring project progress through regular site reviews, working with teams to update sequences and highlight any issues
• Presenting programme updates and planning insights to project managers, construction leads, and senior leadership
• Coordinating with design managers, commercial teams, and construction planners to proactively resolve sequencing and logistics challenges
• Generating lookahead programmes, float analysis, and weekly/monthly progress reports to support decision-making

What are we looking for?

This role of MEP Planner is great for you if:

• You have strong proficiency in Elecosoft Asta PowerProject, including creating fully logic-linked MEP programmes and resource-loading
• You have demonstrable experience as an MEP planner on-site, ideally in commercial, custodial, or pharmaceutical laboratory projects
• You have proven experience in tender and preconstruction planning
• You possess a solid understanding of mechanical, electrical, and public health systems in a construction environment
• You have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, alongside strong communication skills and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role and the nature of the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance / Counter Terrorism Check (CTC), which takes place during/before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre-requisite criteria including residency history. Applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit Making Ground. This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

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