Senior Planning Manager - #1799661

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Planning Manager within the PMO Team. This role will be based on site in Birmingham

Role Responsibilities

• To establish and implement the HS2 requirements for Planning and Project Controls
• Ensure compliance to HS2 requirements
• Support the production and delivery of the Performance Measurement Baseline and Performance Measurement Updates
• Integration of the current and forecast programme, budget, cost, and risk at asset and sub-asset level
• A high level of understanding of compensation events within an NEC form of contract.
• Promote best practice and innovation
• Development of all planning and project control staff so they reach their full potential.
• Coaching and supporting of project control and planning staff, as required.
• Ensure that appropriate lean, coordinated and visual performance metrics are set up to assist the Project Team to timely deliver projects and improve performance.

Experienced required

• Computer literacy: - Primavera (all versions including experience of importing and export XLS data) - Microsoft Project - Word (including an understand of paragraph styles)/ - Excel (including advanced experience of reference and array formulae, pivot table and charts) - TiLOS (including experience of transferring to and from Primavera) - Synchro (including experience of transferring to and from Primavera)
• Report writing skills
• Substantial site experience of which some must be in relevant disciplines and some as a senior discipline planner.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Aptitude for logic and attention to detail.
• Considerable, in-depth experience of planning & project control services within large complex environments within the construction and engineering industry.
• Advanced understanding of various forms of tender documents, contract documents and specifications.
• Advanced understanding of various methods of project controls, planning and performance reporting.
• An understanding and experience in risk and opportunity management.
• Advanced understanding of the events that initiate, and of the methods used to demonstrate, delay or change entitlement.
• Excellent understanding of the construction market, methods of construction, plant, equipment and labour requirements.
• Experience in coaching, mentoring and developing others

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance

• Flexible working available for some roles

• Free parking

• Travel allowance for eligible candidates

• Family friendly leave policies

• Excellent pension contributions

• Healthcare

• Health risk assessments

• Access to employee assistance programmes

• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.