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Planning Engineer
Job Posted: a day ago
Salary: £ 50,000 - 60,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Highland
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Orion Group is supporting a leading national Civil Engineering client looking to recruit an experienced and motivated Planning Engineer to join their team. As part of this team, you will play a key part in delivering large civil engineering projects that will provide critical infrastructure to enable future, renewable developments across Scotland. You will be required to work out of our regional offices initially which are located in Inverness and Glasgow before visiting site during project delivery. The projects are within the energy infrastructure sector, building new substations and HVDC converter stations to support Scotland's transition to net Zero.
Your Responsibilities:
As a Planning Engineer, you will report to the Senior Planning Engineer/Planning Manager and be responsible for the following:
Developing and maintaining detailed programmes in P6 from first principles including resource loading.
Integration and management of sub-contractor and supplier programmes with our own.
Assimilate and interpret information from tender and project documentation.
Understand civil construction techniques and developing them into a working programme.
Coordinate with estimators and commercial teams on all programme aspects.
Compile concise narratives, phasing, reports and supporting documents for input into quality submissions for tenders and projects.
Take ownership of the programme to drive project delivery.
Utilise a number of planning techniques and tools to communicate the programme effectively.
Contribute, support and communicate programme information, risk and commercial issues to operational teams in a variety of formats.
Support collaborative planning workshops with clients, operational teams and subcontractors (depending on Project requirements).
Update and monitor project progress, compile reports against project and contract requirements.
Introduce and analyse change in programmes and support the commercial teams.
Evaluate supply chain and subcontract programmes.
Comply with business processes and systems.
Maintain awareness of latest construction techniques.
Who are we looking for?
Experience of delivering programme under the NEC form of contract is preferable.
Must have at least 5 years’ experience in Civil Engineering contracting and will require the ability to communicate and manage own workload and support Senior Planning Engineers and Framework Lead Planner within a portfolio of projects
The role may suit an experienced Sub-Agent looking for a change
A qualification in Civil Engineering/Construction to HND level or equivalent is preferred but not essential
Competent in the use of various planning software is preferable
A demonstrable ability to develop, own and drive programmes.
The ability to communicate effectively with all parties.
Comfortable in presenting and client facing situations.
Can demonstrate experience of working closely with site construction teams and understanding of each "customer's" programme requirements.
A clear ability for logical thinking and working in an ordered fashion.
The ability to work to often challenging timescales.
Experience in producing summary construction or project control information in excel and Power BI would be an advantage
Tender experience would be an advantage.
Strong commercial and contractual acumen with a track record of change management within NEC contracts.
What’s in it for you?
Competitive salary
A wide range of family-friendly policies
Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
8 % matched pension contributions
Private healthcare
Life assurance
26 days holiday
2 wellbeing days
1 volunteering day
Personal and professional development
**PLEASE NOTE ALL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE VALID RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK AS VISA SPONSORSHIP IS NOT PROVIDED
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