What We Offer:
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Competitive salaries with yearly appraisals
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Travel expenses covered for assignments outside your base location
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Perkbox membership for 24/7 access to perks, benefits, discounts, and wellbeing tools
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Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance schemes provided by leading providers
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Generous pension scheme
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25 days holiday plus bank holidays (this includes a Christmas shutdown)
Role Overview:
Are you a proactive, forward-thinking professional with a passion for delivering excellence in project planning? Join our VVB Engineering as a Senior Planner and play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery, commercial viability, and resource optimisation of projects across the Midlands and North region.
Key Responsibilities:
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Prepare cost and resource-loaded programmes covering the complete project scope in line with the contract.
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Create and maintain robust, logically linked, cost and resource-loaded project programmes.
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Regularly update project programmes, ensuring they align with client expectations.
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Provide comprehensive programme updates and conduct reviews prior to submission.
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Prepare and submit weekly site progress photo reports.
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Carry out regular programme reviews to ensure contractual obligations are met.
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Perform impact assessments, delay analyses, and prepare cause-and-effect delay programmes.
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Monitor project progress through lookahead plans, site diaries, and regular site visits.
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Conduct forensic planning and prepare EOT (Extension of Time) programmes to support commercial submissions.
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Implement and maintain VVB planning standards and programme logic, while maintaining a programme log for all changes.
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Generate Earned Value Analysis (EVA) reports and regularly review SPI (Schedule Performance Index) and CPI (Cost Performance Index).
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Prepare tender programmes and contribute to tender submissions as requested by the Head of Planning.
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Support the commercial team in managing risks and opportunities (R&O) at project level.
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Resolve cross-functional planning issues and escalate concerns where necessary.
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Provide support to other VVB projects as directed by the Planning Manager.
Person Specification:
Essential:
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Strong understanding of achieving customer satisfaction and maintaining high standards.
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Proficiency in planning software and operational requirements.
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Awareness of inter-discipline requirements of design and construct projects.
Desirable:
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Knowledge of major construction contracts (NEC, JCT, ICE).
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Background in electrical or mechanical engineering.
Qualifications:
Essential:
Desirable:
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Electrical or Mechanical Engineering qualifications.
Competencies/ Behaviours
Essential:
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Collaborative, decisive, and able to work under pressure.
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Flexible, “can-do” attitude in a fast-paced environment.
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to liaise on technical matters at all levels.
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Self-motivated and forward-thinking with the ability to establish good working relationships.
Desirable:
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Willingness to travel nationally and internationally.
Essential Experience:
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Minimum 10 years of experience in planning.
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Competence in creating planning documentation.
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Experience in infrastructure environments (utilities/civils).
Desirable:
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Previous experience working for an M&E contractor.
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Proven experience of 3–5 years in a similar role.
Our vision is to deliver sustainable Mechanical, Electrical and Telecommunication engineering solutions for our clients, our people and our environment.
Our ethical approach assures:
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Customer-centric self-delivery, thanks to a unique combination of Tier 1 industry knowledge and Tier 2 agility.
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A values-driven, partnership approach that ensures we make the ethical decision, always.
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True sustainability that’s actively considered and built into the design phase of projects.
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