Planner

Location: Basingstoke - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 42.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

At Kier, our purpose is to sustainably deliver infrastructure which is vital to the UK. As an MEP Planner, you'll play a crucial role in developing, maintaining, and monitoring MEP programmes across a range of complex projects including defence, pharmaceutical, commercial, custodial, and education sectors. This is an opportunity to combine your technical planning expertise with strong communication and coordination skills, supporting both preconstruction and delivery stages. You'll manage multiple concurrent projects, acting as the sole MEP planner on each, whilst 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 across 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 progress through regular site reviews, working with site teams and subcontractors to update progress 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, access, and logistics challenges
• Supporting risk identification and mitigation through programme analysis and scenario planning

What are we looking for?

This role of MEP Planner is great for you if:

• You're an intermediate or advanced user of Elecosoft Asta PowerProject, able to create fully logic-linked MEP programmes from contract award through to handover
• You have 4-6 years' on-site experience as an MEP planner, with a strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and public health systems
• You bring 3-5 years' experience in tender and preconstruction planning, with the ability to contribute to bid submissions
• You're proficient in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with experience using Bluebeam Revu for plan reviews and coordination
• You have strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating with diverse teams to achieve shared goals

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 which takes place 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 www.kier.co.uk/careers/making-ground. This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

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