Planner, Engineering, Civil Engineering

About Barhale

Barhale is a business founded on family values, having been established by our Chairman, Dennis Curran, in 1980. We are one of the largest privately owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists in the UK, with over 40 years of experience in providing design, civil engineering and maintenance services working across multiple sectors, including:

• Water
• Transport
• Built environment
• Energy

We operate as a tier one partner for blue chip, regulated and private clients, working as part of large frameworks, joint ventures and alliances, as well as on individual standalone projects, developing long-term relationships based on delivering to the Barhale values which have been integral to our business since their inception in 1985.

Our direct delivery model is at the core of everything we do, as we believe that people are our greatest asset. Therefore, we robustly source, train and retain all our own frontline delivery teams as well as management and support services. We employ over 1,200 employees nationwide.

We possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities, including:

• Tunnelling
• MEICA
• Temporary and permanent design
• Steel‑fabrication
• Signs (design and fabrication)
• Health & safety equipment and products, including PPE

• As Gold Investors in People, we are committed to a high standard of people practices, creating an inclusive environment and ensuring cultural alignment to business strategy, ethos and philosophies.
• Job security, long‑term secured work through various frameworks and large infrastructure schemes
• A broad range of civil engineering, mechanical and electrical schemes across some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects and clients
• Strong career progression as demonstrated by our track record in promoting from within, as we believe this is a key driver of our success

Barhale is one of three delivery partners within the Anglian Water Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Alliance. IOS is a medium to high complexity, capital maintenance and enhancement, Civil and MEICA, design and build delivery unit working across Water and Water Recycling to support the successful implementation of the Anglian Water AMP 8 business plan.

Responsible for supporting estimators and delivery teams to ensure compliance with planning and commitment to the company’s objectives.

• Proactively support the estimating and delivery teams to ensure that planning standards are maintained across all projects and planning & control procedures are adhered to
• Assisting with the tender, pre‑construction, and delivery of a range of opportunities and live projects by collaboratively developing and maintaining robust, detailed project plans
• Assisting with establishing optimal construction methodologies, logic sequences and work outputs
• Appreciating and upholding the Health & Safety standards in all planning processes

• Developing animations of the project plan to aid in the digital rehearsal of the project construction
• Supporting the review of tender programmes and their compliance

• Fostering the planning culture with a great focus on weekly planning updates and reviews of performance
• Monitoring the critical path and key milestones, advising the delivery team on any potential changes and leading challenge and mitigation actions
• Supporting the preparation of reports and updates of information displayed on sites in line with the reporting cycles

• Ensuring that claimable delays are captured and quantified
• Supporting the development of programmes to demonstrate the impact of change in compliance with the contractual and project‑specific requirements
• Advising Operations and Commercial on project risks, float uptake and impacts on the
• Contractual delivery dates

• CSCS Card
• Good understanding of construction sequencing and how a project comes together, gained in a site‑level role for a contractor in the UK construction industry
• Good knowledge of NEC and other relevant forms of contract
• Experience in leading collaborative planning processes
• Proficient…