Senior Planner

Company: Dragados UK & Ireland
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

Job Summary

The Senior Planner establishes and maintains the overall time plan for the Project and monitors and reports performance against it on the Curzon Street Station project.

Key Responsibilities

  • Prepare and maintain a robust and realistic integrated master schedule for the Euston Project highlighting critical milestones relating to key activities, deliverables and interfaces.
  • Clarify and maintain the visibility of programme interface requirements and dependencies; ensure that responsibilities for the management of interfaces are clearly assigned and understood.
  • Collate regular and ad-hoc reports for the Project SLT to provide a timely overview of programme time performance on an exception basis.
  • Develop and present regular forecasts of anticipated milestone achievements and use EVA techniques to measure trends and maintain an up-to-date view of the expected completion date for the Project as a whole; recommend Project level actions where appropriate to mitigate potential time over-runs.
  • Provide advice and guidance to the project delivery team in the reviewing and challenging where appropriate sub-contractors programmes.
  • Ensure that adequate, time provision is included in individual project schedules to allow for overall Programme integration.
  • Ensure the effective management of the time contingency built into the Programme for programme level risks to ensure that contingency allowances reflect the current programme position.
  • Establish Programme level commissioning and testing schedules taking account of project interfaces and planned completion schedules
  • Ensure consistency of planning techniques and the use of common WBS at all levels of the project.

Technical Skills And Competencies

  • Expert knowledge of construction techniques methods and durations
  • Very strong understanding of techniques for project planning control and other facets of project control
  • Expert knowledge of Primavera and similar planning software
  • Strong knowledge of integrated project planning
  • Expert knowledge of EVA techniques
  • Ability to use schedule risk modelling software such as Pertmaster

Behavioural Competencies

  • Strong team leader
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability to “deep dive” into planning
  • Comfortable with presenting at senior level
  • Able to present facts clearly and simply
  • Able to collaborate effectively with others to develop integrated programmes
  • Ability to mentor and train subordinate staff

Qualifications, Certifications And Experience

  • Relevant experience of project planning
  • Significant past experience of large projects
  • MAPM of formal PM/ Project controls qualification or relevant experience
  • Experience in the railway environment or construction projects

Contract type

Permanent

Salary

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Posted: May 18th, 2026