Kane Group are an established, and successful multi-disciplinary building-services solution contractor, with our Head Office based in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.
We're an innovative, forward-thinking company with continued steady growth serving residential, hospitality, education, commercial and healthcare sectors with offices in Northern Ireland, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and the Republic of Ireland.
We are actively seeking a Project Planner to join the company to be responsible for the creation & management of Construction & Commissioning programmes
Responsibilities
Programme Development & Planning
- Produce programmes, from first principles, ensuring that all key design, procurement and construction activities are captured, and logic linked to identify the critical path
- Ability to produce detailed programmes and options quickly as required by clients, including design, procurement, manufacturing/lead-in, installation and commissioning activities
- Review tender/construction drawings, specifications and bills to gain full comprehension of project scope and constraints in order to develop a coherent installation sequence
- Prepare Information Required and Procurement schedules from the programme
- Develop project specific method statements and logistics plans to support tender bids and site operations
Programme Monitoring, Reporting & Analysis
- Collate, validate and accurately measure project progress against programme dates, reporting to Senior Management
- Monitor any changes and assess the impact on the agreed programmes, including assessment of variations/compensation events and advise on delay entitlement
- Carry out “what-if” scenarios to forecast potential issues during the project
- Where applicable, carry out delay analysis and prepare reports to assist with EOT applications
- Maintain full change log records and revision control for all programmes, as per Planning Process
Site & Project Coordination
- Regular visits to site to review progress with the team, identifying delays, risks and critical path impacts
- Work closely with the Site Team to manage all programme and planning activities on allocated projects
- Prepare short-term programmes and carry out project specific exercises such as re-programming and resource allocation
- Suggest programme recovery actions or betterment opportunities
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Explain programme logic to project teams/departments, highlighting assumptions, methodology, plant, equipment, resources and constraints
- Develop relationships with internal teams, consultants and clients
- Review and challenge main contractor/sub-contractor programmes
- Undertake any other duties as required by management
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualifications: HNC/Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or similar
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role planning within construction and/or MEP projects
- Experience of tender stage planning and/or onsite planning within a developer/contracting organisation
- Excellent knowledge of the construction process from feasibility to handover
- Proven understanding of the full project cycle and associated constraints
- Excellent IT skills with essential knowledge of Asta PowerProject
Desirable
- Experience of planning or managing MEP installations
- Knowledge of infrastructure, installation and commissioning sequences of M&E services
- Experience working on residential building projects through all lifecycle stages
- Experience in delay analysis and EOT processes
- Knowledge of other planning software (e.g. MS Project, Primavera P6)
Abilities & Skills
- Methodical, imaginative, and analytical thinker, with practical construction experience combined with sound knowledge of planning, programming and control processes
- Proficient in communication (both written and verbal)
- Organised and structured approach to your work.
- Ability to work within an environment with deadlines while having to multi-task with multiple priorities
- High attention to detaill
- Self-motivated with excellent time and project management skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to work unsupervised, individually or as part of a team, to a very high standard.
Company Benefits
- Cash Health Plan to include Employee Assistance Programme
- 4 x Salary Death in Service cover
- Auto Enrolment Company Pension scheme (Salary Sacrifice)
- Company Sick Pay Scheme, which is available upon successful completion of probation, and increases with service
- Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
- Paid professional subscriptions
- Variety of employee discounts
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Branded clothing
- Active Social and Wellbeing Committees
- Annual Health Checks
- Full use of onsite state of the art gym
- Awards for long service
- Additional annual leave based on length of service
- Training and development opportunities.
- Free Onsite parking
Kane is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
INDMED
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Free fitness classes
- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Banbridge, County Down: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Work Location: In person
