Senior Planner
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Jenny Bates
Benefits
Life assurance
Private medical insurance
Additional holiday purchase opportunities
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%
Enhanced family leave & policies
Share plan schemes
Free health & wellbeing services
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Senior Planner
We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Southern Water team based in the Southern region.
Location: Southern Water - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: 40 hours per week - 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.
Kier has been selected by Southern Water to deliver as part of the AMP8 framework, and we're thrilled to be building a talented team to support this exciting programme. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative environment where your expertise will directly contribute to delivering essential water infrastructure projects. You'll be working alongside skilled professionals who value innovation, teamwork, and the impact we can make together for our communities.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Senior Planner, you'll be working within the Planning team, supporting them in delivering programme and project controls across a dynamic portfolio of works. Your day-to-day will include:
- Leading a discrete planning team to deliver programme and project controls outputs under NEC ECC contract conditions
- Producing programmes for acceptance, impact assessments, and comprehensive reports with clear narratives
- Supporting and nurturing a team of planners, fostering collaboration and consistency across the programme
- Analysing contract metrics and making improvement recommendations to enhance delivery
- Working closely with commercial teams to ensure accurate forecasts and resource planning in Primavera P6
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Planner is great for you if:
- You have NEC planning experience within civils and MEICA-based projects
- You're comfortable building relationships directly with clients and supply chain partners
- You have experience managing a small planning team and enjoy supporting others to develop
- You possess excellent communication skills and a good understanding of commercial and contractual matters
- You're competent in using Primavera P6 and thrive working to challenging timescales
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.
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Location: Falmer
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Vacancy ID: 10682
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Background check: None
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Closing Date: 13 Jul 2026
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Flexible Working: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.
