Senior Construction Planner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senor Construction Planner to join an award-winning built environment consultancy. They are company dedicated to helping their clients to create better places to live, learn and work, the success of their business is built on the foundation of their people who are their greatest asset.

The Role

Thiis is an energetic and innovative position, establishing a new service specialism to support and expand strategies, it's an agile, collaborative and largely autonomous role suitable for someone with an entrepreneurial flair seeking a new challenge.

• There will be some prompt hands-on delivery on one of their existing priority projects. However, they will be mindful to balance this delivery requirement with protected time to develop the service specialism and to grow a team
• They are ideally seeking an industry expert who has delivered programme planning on large scale projects or programmes of work, as some of their projects exceed £1bn in value which presents a particularly high level of complexity. They're open for you to have either a consultancy or contractor background, assuming that you are comfortable managing stakeholder relationships throughout the development of your programmes, within the key projects.
• Ideally, you'll be based from their Birmingham office within their Project Management team, albeit they'll be seeking for you to build relationships across all of their offices and disciplines. As, in the future, they are anticipating national coverage of this service specialism. Reporting directly to an Equity Partner, you'll benefit from expert guidance, collaborative support and a direct route to the wider key stakeholder network within their business.

As this is a unique opportunity and a new role to the business, the responsibilities will continue to involve, but here is what they anticipate some of the key responsibilities to be:

Delivery

As mentioned above, there is some immediate demand for programme planning support on some of their existing large scale complex projects, primarily within the Life Sciences and Advanced Manufacturing sectors.

They also have a developing PMO and Project Controls expertise and service offer to which this opportunity comfortably aligns

Learning & Development

They have over 100 PMs within the discipline who would benefit from expert programme training,which todate has been through adhoc project experiences and MS Project training.The opportunity is twofold: develop a handbook guidance which can upskill PMs; utilise PMs to support programme delivery and 'learn on the job'.

Leadership

This role presents the opportunity to develop and lead a high-performing team of programmers, to support the creation of this new service specialism across the business.

They have an agile working philosophy and see value in the team being located across any of theiroffices, particularly aligned to our expansion plans for our Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol offices.

Growth

Beyond the short term, they are looking for this individual to help develop a strong future pipeline of programme planning work, building on the existing opportunities being identified.

Education, skills and experience:

• Ideally you will have a construction related Degree BSc or MSc
• Ideally you would hold MRICS / MCIOB / APMP or similar industry recognised Chartered status, albeit this is not essential and they can support you to achieve this chartered status
• A passion for the built environment, specifically for providing a quality service to their clients to help them to create better places for people to live, learn and work.
• Experienced in programming high value, large scale and complex projects gained in either a consultancy or contractor environment.
• Exceptional communication skills, with individuals of all levels, both internally and externally
• An ability to build, nurture, influence and maintain trusted relationships with clients, colleagues, partners, peers and other key stakeholders.
• An inspirational, modern leadership style, with the ability to effectively build a high-performing team.
• An ability to contribute to the growth and development of the team, adding value for their clients, and developing a Programme Planning service specialism across the wider business.
• An excellent all-round technical programme planning knowledge, to establish yourself as a trusted advisor within your team, office and the wider business.

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