Planner

Overview

Prepare competitive pre‑construction programmes for bids on highway and local authority schemes.

Key Responsibilities

• programme planning
• document management
• preconstruction schedule
• critical path
• risk identification
• estimating liaison

Tasks

-Recognise that Health and Safety considerations are central to all tasks and contribute to ensuring safe working environment for all. -Define sequence, logistics, resource requirements and outputs for programming and quality submissions. -Ensure 4Projects/viewpoint is used as document management system. -Implement the Quality, Safety and Environmental Policies and Targets. -Challenge solutions to determine optimum programme durations. -Close liaison with estimating team and supply chain to support pricing, preliminaries and temporary works. -Preparation of the preconstruction programme for Highways England and Local Authority Schemes. -Liaison with operational and design staff to derive effective methodologies. -Provide detailed hand over to site team and obtain ongoing feedback throughout project lifecycle. -Integrate design and preconstruction programme. -Establish programme critical path and identify programme time related and non-time related risks.

Requirements

• microsoft
• p6
• asta
• msp
• nec
• hnd construction

What You Bring

-Fully conversant with the Microsoft suite of packages -Planning software experience (P6/Asta/MSP). -Understanding of constraints within the bid information and applying them to the programmes. -Good NEC knowledge. -Likely to have previous relevant business experience or transferable skills gained in other areas -HND/C in Construction -Knowledge / understanding of 4D Planning/programme. -A working knowledge of construction planning through job experience or training

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Benefits

-Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role -Cycle to Work schemes -Competitive family leave policy -Comprehensive pension plan -Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays -Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme -Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees, and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it -A wide range of corporate discounts

About Galliford Try

-a national construction powerhouse with a history tracing back to two century‑old local builders. -now focusing on Building, Infrastructure (including Highways and Environment), and Specialist Services, delivering projects such as schools, hospitals, water barriers, and road networks. -expanded through strategic acquisitions—Morrison Construction in 2006, Miller Construction in 2014, and water and specialist services firms since 2021—to broaden its technical capabilities. -delivers projects in sectors like education, health, defence, justice facilities, major highways, water treatment infrastructure, fire‑safety upgrades, and digital infrastructure. -retains dual brands—Galliford Try in England & Wales and Morrison Construction in Scotland—to maintain regional strength. -has shown strong growth, recovering from COVID, reinstating dividends in 2021, and aiming to exceed £2.2 billion in revenue and achieve a 4% operating margin by 2030.

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