Birmingham
Job Title: Rail Design/Construction/Testing & Commissioning Planner – Birmingham Meto Extensions (MMA Alliance, Design Joint Venture - DJV) DJV Planner is responsible for the development, maintenance, and technical integrity of the DJV Design, Construction Support and Testing & Commissioning Programs for covering the six major metro extension projects at varying degrees of completion. Operating within an Alliance delivery model (Owner-DJV-Contractor), the Planner integrates multi-discipline design schedules from the Design Joint Venture (DJV) design partners into six single, logic-driven, cost-loaded Alliance Design, Construction Support and Testing & Commissioning Schedules, fully aligned with the Constructor’s and Owner’s Integrated Alliance Program. The role focuses on schedule realism, transparency, and collaborative planning, supporting “best-for-project” outcomes rather than adversarial controls. Key Responsibilities: • Alliance Design Program Development:, • Develop and maintain the Alliance Design Program in accordance with the Alliance Agreement, Target Outturn Cost (TOC), and Key Result Areas (KRAs), • Update the fully logic-linked, resource- and cost-loaded design schedule structured around the approved Scope, • Define design milestones aligned with Alliance gateways, constructability requirements, procurement lead times, and commissioning needs, • Multi-Discipline Schedule Integration:, • Consolidate detailed discipline schedules from JV partners (civil, track, structures, Tram stops/stations, systems, power, signalling, utilities, and interfaces) into a single integrated Alliance Design Schedule per Target Cost, • Manage inter-discipline and design–construction interfaces, ensuring schedule logic supports early design activities, Change Approvals, staged approvals, and progressive package release., • Validate schedule integrity through critical path analysis, float ownership review, and logic verification, • Integration with Alliance Integrated Program:, • Integrate the Alliance Design Schedule into the Integrated Alliance Program, ensuring alignment with construction, testing & commissioning, and third-party interface activities, • Maintain schedule consistency across design, Construction procurement, construction, and systems integration workstreams, • Support collaborative planning workshops (pull planning, phase planning, last planner–style sessions where applicable), • Cost Loading & Performance Measurement:, • Develop and maintain a cost-loaded design schedule consistent with the Alliance Target Outturn Cost, align with Cost Management budgets, and reduce overspends, • Support earned value or performance measurement methodologies adopted by the Alliance (e.g., physical progress, weighted milestones), • Analyse schedule and cost performance, including critical path movement, productivity trends, and forecast completion metrics, • Progress Updating & Reporting, • Coordinate and validate monthly progress updates from all JV discipline leads, ensuring consistent progress measurement rules are applied, • Update schedule logic, durations, and remaining work based on actual performance and collaborative forecasting on a monthly and rolling quarterly forecast reporting cycle., • Prepare technically robust schedule reports, including:, • Critical path and near-critical path analysis (when required), • Design package readiness and construction release status, • Schedule risk and opportunity assessment, • Change, Risk & Opportunity Management:, • Assess schedule and cost impacts of design development, scope changes, and emerging Alliance risks and opportunities, • Support time-impact analyses and scenario modelling to inform Alliance leadership decisions., • Maintain baseline control of Scope, • Alliance Behaviours & Ways of Working:, • Operate in a no-blame, collaborative environment, promoting schedule transparency and shared ownership of outcomes., • Act as a trusted technical advisor to Design Managers, Construction Planners, and Alliance Project Controls, • Facilitate planning discussions focused on optimisation, buildability, and whole-of-life outcomes Qualifications & Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline., • 8+ years planning and scheduling experience on major infrastructure or rail projects., • Demonstrated experience working within Alliance or collaborative delivery models (preferred)., • Strong understanding of multidisciplinary rail design development, staging, and integration with construction and systems delivery, • Technical Expertise:, • Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 (including cost loading, multiple calendars, and complex logic), • Experience developing integrated design–construction schedules for rail infrastructure Strong knowledge of: • WBS / CBS integration, • Critical path and float analysis, • Schedule risk management and forecasting techniques