Planning Manager

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Taylor Woodrow is recruiting for a Planning Manager to join our Pre-Construction Planning team based in Watford. Reporting to the Head of Planning, the Planning Manager will assimilate the tender documents and produce a plan to deliver the project and communicate the plan to the Bid team. They will develop and produce a tender programme to comply with the Contract and Works Information, and to reflect the most efficient and effective sequence to deliver a project, or section of works.

The Planning Manager will be responsible for liaising with the Estimating team and assisting with the preparation of Preliminary Items; method related items; reconciliation of labour, plant and equipment. They will also assist our bid team with the presentation of the plan and programme at internal governance meetings

Duties:

• Ensure that all activities are planned with time allocated for HSE needs such as documentation and approvals, training, competency checks etc.
• Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction. This is likely to include stage diagrams to explain the proposed sequence.
• Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.
• Be aware of the bid win strategy and contribute to the strategy with innovation options.
• Communicate the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan to the project team utilising visual aids (e.g. stage diagrams; sequence diagrams etc.) to suit.
• Liaise with the Estimating and temporary works departments to ensure allowance is made in Preliminaries and the programme for temporary works.
• Challenge and verify suppliers and sub-contractors programme and methodology
• Determine the requirements for Site set-up and independently prepare phasing, logistics and timeslices along with associated methodology/narratives as required by the tender deliverables

Person Specification

• Degree qualified within an engineering discipline or equivalent
• Extensive experience in planning on civil engineering or building projects, either office or site based.
• Advanced use of specialist software e.g. Primavera P6, CAD, PowerPoint , 4
  
  Projects etc.
• Professional Membership: ICE or APM Membership is desirable

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Job function
  
  Strategy/Planning and Engineering
• Industries Civil Engineering and Construction

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