Construction Planner
Vistry Group
- Ealing, West London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive basic salary and discretionary annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- Agile working possible (dependent on role)
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private Healthcare and Dental Insurance
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
- Share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits
- Mentoring on company systems, residential project planning, business drivers and financial modelling
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Some experience of working with multiple external stakeholders/suppliers.
- An ability to use written and verbal forms of communication effectively with all stakeholders and to keep people engaged and updated throughout the build process and at key times.
- Good level of IT skills and proficient in numerous packages such as MS Excel/PowerPoint/Word, and Asta
- The ability to analyse data and extract key bits of information to undertake/present trend/gap analysis.
- Previous experience in construction planning (residential planning is desirable)
- Some experience of forecasting and delivering to a forecast as effectively as possible.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and engage people operating within all levels of the business either directly or indirectly employed.
- Forward thinking, with the ability to see problems coming before they arise and think both fast and strategically to overcome them.
- Ability to work closely within a team or autonomously.
- A driven individual who is a ‘self-starter’ with a desire to ‘be the best’
- The candidate would preferably have a BTec, HND, NVQ or a degree in the Built Environment Professions (eg Construction Management/ Civil Engineering/ Architecture etc).
- You will play a large part in developing one planning system that will be used by the Construction department and the wider business.
- To assist with the preparation and revision of construction and preconstruction programmes
- To assist with the preparation and alteration of construction logistics plans, visual time slices and tender presentations (from a construction planning perspective)
- To assist with the production of 3D models
- To assist with the preparation of CEMPs (Construction and Environmental Management Plans)
- To prepare sets of progress reporting schedules in Excel
- To update a monthly progress report on projects
- To maintain the programme issue record, correct filing and ensure proper distribution of up-to-date programmes and logistics
- To obtain feedback from site regarding programme accuracy, with the view to improvement going forward
- Visits to site, with the objective of broadening his/her knowledge of construction methodology and building standards, as well as to verify progress reported by these sites.