As a Junior Planning Engineer, you will be responsible for providing planning support, working with the project team to develop and manage programmes.
Responsibilities: Responsibilities
Develop and maintain the project plan using software , working with stakeholders to capture assumptions and identify dependencies to ensure plans are robust.
Contribute towards the development of Work Breakdown and progress monitoring strategy.
Identify project resource requirements through the application of project planning techniques.
Gathers information from project teams and stakeholders and produces basic project performance reports.
Integrate 3rd party schedules and data into the overall project plan
Regular interfacing and integration with the project controls team to maintain an aligned financial position with the Project Plan.
Developing skills in new software including, Primavera (P6)
This role requires 4 days on site working
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
An interest in the construction industry
Good IT literacy with the MS Office.
Good communication skills and working in a Team.
An organised individual that can work well within a team and to deadline.
Desirable
-
Previous knowledge of planning activities.
About us: Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview .
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.
It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
