Planner

We're looking for a Planner to join our Wanlip Project team based in Leicestershire.

Location: Wanlip, Leicester – hybrid working available (3 days per week on site)
Hours: 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday

What will you be responsible for?

As a Planner, you'll be working within the Wanlip Project team, supporting them in delivering capital upgrade works for Severn Trent Water. You'll collaborate with Project Managers and multi-disciplinary delivery teams to ensure programmes are developed, coordinated, and delivered to the highest standards.

What will your day to day look like?

Your day to day will include:

• Leading planning for at least one major work package, creating programmes from first principles.
• Supporting project teams by sequencing and scheduling works across Civil, Mechanical and Electrical disciplines.
• Producing programme narratives, reports and time slice documents for stakeholders and supply chain partners.
• Using Primavera P6 and 4D planning tools to identify risks, interfaces, and support commercial forecasting.
• Leading programme meetings and ensuring alignment across delivery, design and commercial teams.

What are we looking for?

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

• Experience working in a construction project environment, ideally under NEC contracts.
• Strong planning and scheduling skills, with proficiency in Primavera P6.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and present effectively.

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.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier