We're looking for an Assistant Planner to join our Scottish regional construction team based in Glasgow.
Location: Glasgow
Hours: Full Time Monday to Friday - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
As an Assistant Planner, you'll play a vital role in supporting our project delivery teams across Scotland. Working closely with the Senior Planner, you'll help ensure construction projects run smoothly by creating and maintaining high-quality programmes. This is a great opportunity to develop your planning expertise whilst contributing to meaningful construction projects that make a real difference to communities.
What will you be responsible for?
As an Assistant Planner, you'll be working within the Scottish regional construction team, supporting them in delivering successful project outcomes. Your day to day will include:
- Creating look ahead programmes and individual trade package programmes
- Monitoring and updating project progress with regular progress tracking
- Supporting project teams to develop their technical software skills
- Advising on the impact of project delays and updating programmes accordingly
- Working closely with project teams to produce accurate progress reports
What are we looking for?
This role of Assistant Planner is great for you if:
- You're comfortable using planning software such as Asta, Primavera or Microsoft Project
- You have some experience in planning, site management or engineering within a construction environment
- You have excellent communication skills and enjoy collaborating across different teams
- You're highly organised with a keen eye for detail and can work effectively to deadlines
- You hold a relevant construction or engineering qualification (HND Level minimum) and a Full driving licence
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
Due to the nature of this role and the nature of the work at this site, you will be required to complete a Government Security Check (SC) Clearance / Counter Terrorism Check (CTC), which takes place during/before your employment, and is conducted by the Cabinet Office's United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) agency who set out a pre-requisite criteria including residency history. Applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us - to read more about our programme to support people with convictions into employment, visit Making Ground. This role will also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
