Planning Manager
4 days ago
Watford
Job Role: 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 , 4Projects etc., • Professional Membership: ICE or APM Membership is desirable