Senior Planner

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Transportation team in Twyford, Buckinghamshire. In this role, you'll take ownership of planning and programming for large or complex infrastructure and associated building projects valued at over £20m.

Are you ready to shape the future of transportation? At Kier, we believe great journeys start with great planning. If you're passionate about delivering complex infrastructure projects that keep people and goods moving, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

Location: Twyford, Buckinghamshire – travel to the office required, with some remote working available
Hours: Permanent, Full-time, 42.5 hours per week
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum + £6.7k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Planner, you'll be responsible for producing contract programmes (Cl31), period updates (Cl32), change programmes, and associated narrative reports.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Ensuring compliance with NEC3 Contract Conditions within the programme, including use of CENs and EWNs
• Reviewing and providing feedback to the supply chain on contract programme requirements, supporting any claims from CEs with the Commercial & Delivery teams to agree assessments
• Ensuring key business targets and KPIs are met—and wherever possible, exceeded
• Providing regular updates on project progress and subcontractor performance

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is ideal if you have:

• Experience in planning large-scale infrastructure projects with a proven track record of success
• In-depth knowledge and experience of NEC3 contracts
• Full competency in Primavera, with robust logic and strong schedule integrity

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Transportation team based in Twyford Buckinghamshire.  In this role you will be responsible for planning and programming for large or complex infrastructure and associated buildings projects with a value in excess of c£20m.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Twyford, Buckinghamshire – travel to the office required with some remote working available

Hours: Permanent Fulltime 42.5 hours per week  

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum + £6.7k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Planner, you'll be responsible for producing contract programme (Cl31), period updates (Cl32), Change programmes and associated narrative report

Your day to day will include:

• Ensure compliance to NEC3 Contract Conditions within the programme, including use of CEN's and EWN's
• Review and feedback to Supply Chain on their contract programme requirements, support any claims from CE's with the Commercial & Delivery teams to agree assessments  
• Ensure that key business targets and KPI's are met and wherever possible exceeded  
• Provide regular information on the progress of projects and performance of subcontractors

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is great if you have:

• Experience of planning within large-scale infrastructure projects with a proven track record of success
• Deep knowledge and experience of NEC3 contracts
• Fully competent in the use Primavera with robust logic and good schedule integrity

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.

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