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Role overview
- ID: 2024-6598
- Entity: Vistry
- Region: Vistry South London
- Department: Build
- Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Job Location: Broadway Chambers, 2 Broadway Stratford E15 4QS
- Date Posted: 27.11.2024
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our team within Vistry South London, at our locations across the region. As our Senior Planner, you will over live sites, tendering and the development of assistant/project planners.
Projects typically range from £60m to £200m and are often on restricted city centre sites that require a careful consideration of logistics and phasing.
We are pleased to say, this role could accommodate agile working arrangements in accordance with Vistry’s Agile Working Policy and subject to business need.
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
- 2 Volunteering days per annum
- Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
- Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
- Share save and share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Methodical, imaginative and analytical thinker, with practical construction experience combined with sound knowledge of planning, programming and control processes
- Must be able to demonstrate an ability to work harmoniously within a team of professionally qualified people and perform effectively and efficiently when working to demanding timescales
- Must have enthusiasm, drive and conviction, inspire confidence and bring their own knowledge and that of others together to the benefit of the projects
- Candidate will most likely have several years practical on site experience combined with experience of tender stage planning and/or onsite planning within a developer / contracting organisation
- Identify project constraints, critical resource requirements, and recommend time risk contingency allowances
- Ensure compliance with business planning & control procedures
- Input into contractual programme issues (Delay analysis, entitlement assessments etc.)
- Excellent IT skills and relevant knowledge of Planning software including MS Project, Asta PowerProject and Primavera P6 (Noting Asta software will be used)
- An excellent appreciation of the issues and challenges of developing and managing project programmes for residential building projects through all lifecycle stages.
- An excellent knowledge of modern construction methods & techniques.
- An excellent knowledge of the construction process from feasibility to handover.
- A keen understanding of the importance of Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality issues and a good awareness of relevant legislation
- Excellent numeric skills and the ability to think analytically with proficiency in identifying sequence of operations for project delivery and representing these in a logically linked resourced programmes
- Communicates clearly and concisely both orally and in writing; listens actively to others, asks questions to understand their needs; gives clear instructions; handles disagreements and conflict effectively. Ensures others fully understand the message being conveyed. Communicates their views & concerns openly, honestly and will constructively challenge others
- Possesses good presentation skills and is able to present the methodology and programming aspects of a project in a manner appropriate to the target audience
- Generates and applies new ideas; identifies alternatives to traditional methods; open minded and thinks outside of own area; encourages new ways of working; questions existing ways of doing things. Looks for different application of existing ideas and generation of new ideas to deliver improvements to the business
