Senior Planning Engineer - Major Highways

Job Title - Senior Planning Engineer

Projects - Major Highways

Location - Peterborough

Salary - £60,000 / £75,000 + an excellent package

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Client

Cobalt is working with one of the UK's most formidable construction businesses with a vision to be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by their values to deliver lasting change for their stakeholders and the communities they work in. Their purpose is to improve people's lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for their people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

Project

We are recruiting for a Senior Planning engineer to work on an exciting Highways Scheme in the Peterborough area. Our client is one of the Delivery Integration Partners (DIP) on the Regional Delivery Partnership Framework (RDP) with National Highways and have been awarded multiple schemes along the A47 running from Peterborough to Norfolk with a combined construction value of over £250m.

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ROLE

As Senior Planner you will develop, update, and manage the construction programme to support on time delivery.

You will.

• Manage Clause 32 submissions to Highways England on monthly basis

• Provide leadership, line management, coaching, and mentoring to planner and assistant planner

• Programme Package management of major subcontracts up to a value of £30m

• NEC contract administration to client and supply chain (Clause 62 programmes)

• Integrating with the delivery team to promote key milestones and communication of the schedule

• Accountability for formulating and delivering the strategic medium-term programme

• Drive team contribution to the collaborative planning and production control process

• Ensure team provide programme outputs as required by the project planning process

• Co-ordination of designers, multiple contractors, and other stakeholders

• Liaise effectively with the team to collect progress updates to feed into Clause 32 programme

• Complete 'What If' programme assessments to assist Early Warning Notifications (EWN) submissions

• Ensure programme reflects the latest works information

• Implement and maintain Project Controls within Clause 32 schedule

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Candidate

We are looking for passion and a willingness to deliver excellence. If you have a solid track record of planning major civils projects with experience in some or all of the following disciplines earthworks, piling, FRC, drainage, pavements, structural steelwork and vehicle restraint systems then be sure to get in touch as I want to hear from you. You'll be an advanced P6 user confident with resources, costs, project controls and any demonstrable experience of Tilos will be hugely advantageous.

If this sounds like you and you are ready to strive for exceptional levels of performance in a collaborative working environment, then please apply with your latest CV.

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