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Highways England
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Birmingham, West Midlands
Senior Planner
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Job Description
Your new role Here at Highways England, we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our team in Birmingham. Within this role, you will be delivering excellence in planning and scheduling across all programmes and schemes. You will also be involved in embedding the programme planning strategy and associated management processes, tools and documentation into the region, driving measurable improvements in planning and scheduling across the Highways England teams and supply chain. What you'll be leading on Provide specialist support to delivery teams (e.g. Project Managers, Route Managers, etc.) to document and maintain programme delivery plans and schedules, tracking and monitoring in-year delivery against planned budgets, timescales and quality. Promoting the benefit of planning and programming tools within the business. Compile yearly scheme programmes for the regional Operations Programme Office that can be used as the cornerstone of delivering in year and future year targets. Supporting the team in working towards and maintaining the "one programme" approach. Update the scheme progress on a regular basis with consistent use of project controls. Provide programme status and variance reports including those to fully support internal month end and year end reporting. Lead on provision of key programme information including forecast/actual dates and outputs. Ensure that regional delivery plans are version controlled and maintained in accordance with agreed Operations and wider Highways England common standards and requirements. Ensure that supply chain contractors project plans and schedules are of a quality, logic, format and content that enable accurate and robust interrogation and are contract compliant; analyse and challenge critical path and time risk allowance of supplier and project schedules. To be successful Experience in providing optimisation of individual (and combined) design and construction project plans at a project and programme level together with integration of the same Experience of managing programme and project plans in a multidisciplinary environment Experience of scheduling tools and systems, specifically Primavera P6, Time/Location GIS Visualisation tools Thorough understanding of the NEC Contract and its requirements from a planning and scheduling perspective Excellent Stakeholder management A bit about us Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future. Want to know more? To request a copy of the role profile, please email georgia.johnson@highwaysengland.co.uk quoting reference number HIG03524. Why you should join us At Highways England we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation And finally And finally we reserve the right to close before the advertised closing date, so we recommend completing your application as soon as possible.