Senior Planner

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Kier Transportation team based in Oxford.

Location: Oxford
Hours: 42 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.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Planner, you'll be working within the Rail & Aviation Planning Team, planning and programming for large or complex rail infrastructure and associated buildings projects. This may consist of a portfolio of smaller projects and may also involve managing planners who provide support with these schemes. You'll be a strategic thinker who's fully competent in the use of Primavera with robust logic and good schedule integrity, understanding how to resource and cost load programmes.

Your day to day will include:

• Producing contract programmes, period updates, change programmes and associated narrative reports
• Ensuring compliance to NEC4 Contract Conditions within the programme and keeping the project manager regularly informed of any slippage and movement
• Production and obtaining client approval of Risk programmes (QSRA), working with risk software
• Ensuring all change is correctly captured in the programmes in line with NEC timescales
• Supporting and developing Planners and Assistant Planners within the team

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is great for you if:

• You have relevant qualifications at degree level, or equivalent experience
• You have significant experience of construction processes within rail infrastructure
• You can develop a detailed programme from first principles using contract documentation, clearly identifying major quantities and constraints
• You have extensive experience of using Primavera, alongside comfort with the Microsoft Office suite, and demonstrate robust and efficient documentation and record keeping
• You have excellent management skills, with the ability to take the lead with client interfaces and present confidently at senior level meetings

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.

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.