Senior Planner (MEP)

Senior Planner (MEP)

Circa £78,000 + 5% Welcome Bonus + £4,750 Flex Allowance + up to 20% Bonus + Benefits

Great journeys happen at London Gatwick. Where will your career take you? 

Are you looking for a challenging new Senior Planner opportunity? We are looking for great people who can help us redefine what's possible for our Sustainability team.

Key projects include replacing boilers with all-electric, non-fossil fuel plants, transitioning to refrigerants with lower global warming potential and providing the infrastructure for our growing fleet of electric vehicles. Your role will be crucial in helping Gatwick achieve its sustainability goal of reducing emissions by 2030.

To support your journey, you'll be provided with the necessary development to ensure you can Grow. London Gatwick's Construction Department comprises several programme and project teams, along with technical support functions. It is accountable for the delivery of the airport's Capital Investment Programme and strategic growth over the next 5 years, encompassing projects across the campus to deliver fit for purpose critical infrastructure.

What is the role?

London Gatwick is changing at an outstanding pace, and this is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to be part of a high performing team building Gatwick's future infrastructure.

The Senior Planner will operate across all stages of the project process, beyond early pioneering stages, across projects up to the value of approximately £50m and play a key role in Gatwick's future, providing a full planning service. The Senior Planner will manage schedule development, maintenance, monitoring, and recovery plan development activities. In addition, the planner will provide technical support and guidance including Work Breakdown Structure, Cost Breakdown Structure and Resource Loading.

What will you do?

• Develop and maintain a robust delivery schedule for work activities with clear milestones and monitoring activities to support the project schedule including interdisciplinary constraints or interfaces that define activity sequences. Work with the delivery team to coordinate work sequences with the total project plan (programme integrated schedule).
• Perform schedule monitoring, including identifying critical activities and updating functions for specific applications, disciplines, or specialities. Assist with the development and implementation requirements for updating and monitoring the schedule.
• Develop and apply installation rates to quantity take offs and developed quantities for assigned projects. Review and analyse the contractor's schedules submitted for acceptance and provide the required recommendation to the project team. 
• Evaluate quantities, job hours/staffing, and schedule logic for a specific discipline or speciality. Prepare schedule, staffing, and quantity progress and performance reports for assigned disciplines or specialities.
• Manage contract programme assessment and acceptance/rejection, assessing compensation events and performing delay analysis.
• Review quantity logs to ensure total quantities are represented for assigned projects. Assists in the development of the required job hour expenditure for assigned projects.
• Review and analyse contractor's schedules against the GAL baseline, identifying critical path activities and performance variance.

Do you have what we are looking for?

• Educated to Degree/Post-Grad level or equivalent in construction or business-related field.
• Experience as a Senior Planner on projects with significant MEP work, with a value typically over £10m highly desirable.
• Significant experience with Primavera software (P6) and MS Excel.
• Experience in planning infrastructure projects in a live operational environment is desirable.
• Experience in performing quantity take-offs, statistical analysis, and computer operations.
• Understanding of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up work processes.
• Understanding of mathematical and financial reports.
• Understanding of NEC types of contracts
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Awareness of the airport environment is desirable.
• Personal resilience and the ability to operate within ambiguity.

What's in it for you? 

Our employees tell us that working here is something special and no day is like another; Where our teams do something every day other airports only dream of. Along with a competitive salary our employees enjoy a range of personal, health and financial benefits, including:

• 5% Welcome Bonus
• Performance-based bonus scheme
• High street shops and restaurant discounts
• Healthcare scheme
• Life and disability insurance
• Professional training to develop
• Free holiday parking
• Discounted travel to work schemes
• Free on-site parking
• Volunteer days

What it's like to work at London Gatwick? 

At London Gatwick, our people are our biggest asset. We want our people to thrive and have the best experience while working with us. We know we are all at our best when we feel comfortable and included. 

We are an organisation that places diversity, equity and inclusion at its heart. Our aim; to create a place where everyone belongs and has a voice, and we recognise we all play an important role in our success. 

To find out more about what it's like to work at London Gatwick, visit our dedicated construction careers site Construction Careers | London Gatwick Airport 

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us direct