Senior Project Planner

A Project Planner is required to support the delivery of a data centre project in Germany, working closely with project managers, engineers, commercial teams and site teams to keep programme activity clear, controlled and risk-aware.

This Project Planner role would suit someone with strong construction planning experience who can build and maintain project schedules from design, commercial and site information, track progress, highlight risks and support programme discussions with the wider project team.

The Role:

• Review contract documentation and identify key schedule, reporting and tracking requirements.
• Develop construction schedules from high-level target programmes, work breakdown structures and project information.
• Produce and maintain integrated construction schedules in conjunction with project, site and commercial teams.
• Labour-load schedules using hours, quantities and commercial information.
• Develop trackers, reporting templates, S-curves, histograms, look-ahead schedules and progress reports.
• Measure, record and report weekly progress, installation performance and labour efficiency.
• Highlight programme risks, roadblocks and early warnings to the project team and lead planner.
• Support planning meetings, schedule reviews and programme coordination with external project stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Experience as a Project Planner, Planner, Planning Engineer or similar construction planning role.
• Ability to develop, monitor and control project plans from design, commercial and site information.
• 3–5 years’ planning experience is ideal, although demonstrated ability in construction planning will be considered.
• Third-level qualification in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Building Services Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or a strong trades background with technical planning ability.
• Experience using Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 or equivalent planning software.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, report writing ability and confidence producing planning documentation.
• Good time management, attention to detail and the ability to work to a busy reporting calendar.
• Experience within data centre, building services, MEP or mission-critical construction projects would be advantageous.