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  • Posted By: Hays Construction and Property
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  • Date Posted: 17th Jun 2008
  • Salary: upto £55k
  • Location: Birmingham
  • Reference Code: 1305277
  • Views Since Posting: 4
  • Full Description:

    This client provides a comprehensive service for the design and construction of new buildings, refurbishment and fit-out works valued between £100,000 and £20m from its offices in West Midlands

    Whatever the procurement route, this clients professional approach enables it to join the design team at any stage of the construction process, promoting sustainable and energy-efficient solutions that embrace innovation, value and quality.

    They continue to adopt new ideas and systems of working with its clients and supply chain to maintain a competitive edge. A collaborative approach has resulted in an increasingly high volume of repeat business in both public and private sectors over many years. For this continue an opportunity has arisen for a Senior Planner to be based in their Birmingham office.


    Key Knowledge & Skills

    Knowledge of the tender construction process from inception through to completion
    Excellent communicator
    Good technical construction knowledge
    A lateral thinker - able to identify the competitive edge that will keep win tenders
    Knowledge and experience of planning/programming techniques and procedures, including experience in using proprietary computerised planning software.
    Health & Safety knowledge
    IT Literate
    An ability and willingness to work across other disciplines

    Responsible to
    Area Planner

    Key duties & Areas of responsibility
    Preconstruction

    Assist in preparing prequalification documents
    offer preliminary planning advice to potential clients
    Work as part of a team to prepare tenders, including:
    Prepare tender programmes, site layouts, method statements
    Price preliminaries
    Prepare scaffold/temporary electrics schedule for pricing
    Attend internal tender settlement meetings
    Attend client interview/presentations required
    Act as a bid leader on 2 stage tenders

    Construction
    Work as part of the construction team to ensure that projects are planned and monitored correctly, including:
    Communicate tender programme/prelims plus assumptions made to the project team
    Prepare contract/approved programmes
    Prepare design programmes & procurement programmes
    Prepare target/short term/subcontractor programmes
    Assess the impact of variations on the programme and make appropriate submissions (eg. as required by ECC form of contract)
    Identify opportunities for bettering proposed programme
    Monitor progress against programmes and provide feedback to subcontractors, site team, senior management, other planners and estimating teams.
    Provide independent assessment of progress for input in the Board Report.

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