Planner - Infrastructure

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The Senior Planner will play a key role in providing a full planning service for all assigned projects.  The Senior Planner will manage schedule development, maintenance, monitoring and recovery plan development activities.  In addition the planner will provide technical support and guidance including Work Breakdown Structure, Cost Breakdown Structure and Resource Loading.  The Senior Planner will have responsibility for major or more complex projects (typically above £20m).

Your core duties will involve:

• Develop and maintain robust delivery schedule of work activities with clear milestones and monitoring activities to support the project schedule including interdisciplinary constraints or interfaces that define activity sequences.  Work with delivery team to co-ordinate work sequences with the total project plan (programme integrated schedule).
• Perform schedule monitoring, including identifying critical activities and updating functions for specific applications, disciplines or specialities.  Assist the development and implementation requirements for updating and monitoring the schedule.
• Develop and apply installation rates to quantity take offs and developed quantities for assigned projects.  Review and analyse the contractor’s schedules submitted for acceptance and provide the required recommendation to the project team.
• Evaluate quantities job hours/staffing and schedule logic for a specific discipline or speciality.  Prepare schedule, staffing and quantity progress and performance reports for assigned disciplines or specialities.
• Manage contract programme assessment and acceptance/rejection, assessing compensation events and performing delay analysis.
• Review quantity logs to ensure total quantities and represented for assigned projects.  Assists in the development of the required job hour expenditure for assigned projects.
• Review and analyse contractor’s schedules against the GAL baseline, identifying critical path activities and performance variance.
• Perform supervisory role to Planners with the wider programme team.
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What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

• Educated to Degree/Post Grad level or equivalent in construction or business related field.

• Experience (typically associated with five years’ experience) as a planner on projects with a value typically in excess of £20m.
• Significant experience with Primavera software (P6) and MS Excel.
• Experience in planning infrastructure projects in a live operational environment desirable.
• Experience in performing quantity takeoffs, statistical analysis and computer operations.
• Understanding of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction and start up work processes.
• Understanding of mathematical and financial reports.
• Understanding of NEC types of contract.
•  Good oral and written communication skills.
• Personal resilience and the ability to operate within ambiguity.