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Position: Planning Manager

Location: Buckinghamshire

Salary Guide: £80,000.00 - £100,000 Plus Car/Allowance and Excellent Package

Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are a strategic partner to Thames Water for AMP7 and AMP8 on Capital Frameworks across the Thames Water supply and treatment regions. They provide design and build services for new and existing infrastructure assets and non-infrastructure assets.

They are recruiting for a Planning Manager for their projects throughout the Thames Valley region where you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of planners to deliver all programme and project controls outputs for a portfolio of works, under IChemE and NEC contract conditions. This work is with Thames Water on their sewage treatment Waste Asset Assurance Programme (WAAP).

Key responsibilities will include:

Being the programme and planning conscience on a portfolio of water asset management works
Contribute as a planning and programme subject matter expert
Coach, mentor and manage a diverse planning team, working to identify individuals strengths and weaknesses, ensuring that development plans are put in place
Review, and where required, produce programmes for acceptance, impact programmes, project controls dashboards, reports and programme narratives, from 1stprinciples
Support the commercial team to ensure accurate forecasts, with reference to programme, are produced

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

NEC / IChemE contract-based Planning experience, within medium to large scale non-infrastructure project or portfolio work.
Confidence and experience of managing a planning team.
Good understanding of commercial and contractual matters and thorough experience and understanding of programming techniques.
Competency in the use of Primavera P6.
Experience of civils and MEICA based projects in the water industry