Senior Planner
| Posting date: | 07 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,000 to £75,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Location: | Kingston Upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU1 3QX |
| Company: | Carbon60 |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBBH165964_1754579066 |
Summary
Role - Senior Planner
Project Type - New construction on existing site
Location - Hull
Start Date - ASAP
Duration - Permanent
Salary - Up to £75,000
Hours - Monday to Friday. 37hrs
Additional
- Overtime opportunities possible. Potential for some WFH
- Living away allowance depending on your location
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Planner to be based on site at a project in Hull. The Senior Planner is responsible for consulting and directing the function to provide cost/expenditure transparency, project controls, processes and planning activities to projects and contracts whilst ensuring parity and best practice across the business.
Key Accountabilities
- Develop and manage an effective project control strategy whilst maintaining the project controls plan and associated procedures
- Ensure project schedules, including resource loading, critical path analysis and progress monitoring are adopted across all projects
- Collaborate with commercial manager, project managers and engineers to ensure project objectives are achieved within scope, schedule, and budget constraint
- Establish cost engineering systems to monitor, control and report costs
- Aid in the development, integration and optimisation of project programmes
- Liaise with PMs/RDs to manage the provision of appropriate resources and expertise to successfully deliver the project control activities
- Liaise with project teams to identify project risks and associated control measures, plus opportunities
- Assist in the development and monitor the performance of key contracts
- Ownership of the update of business process and reporting systems/timelines through to project closure
- Develop bespoke and/or generic rules of credit
- Develop structured naming conventions in P6 to be rolled out through the business
Specific Activities
- Review and approve prior to issuance all cost/planning information required for Monthly Project Board meeting
- Set up and lead the Project Control Meetings
- Ensure we have robust monthly project updates to the project risk registers and value analysis processes
- Manage the integration of programmes from various sources
- Implement progress monitoring and productivity measurement
- Define and issue the project work breakdown structure and estimating format
- Monitor expenditure and adjust budgets in accordance with the project change control system
Experience & Qualifications
- Knowledge and proficiency in P6
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written, plus strong analytical skills
- 8 years of experience in a leadership role in project controls
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business or related fields and twelve (12) years' experience in Construction Management, and or ICostE, CEng, IEng
- ERP system, estimating software, SAP
- PMO Experience
- Knowledge or and experience using PowerBI and MS tools
- Excellent communication skills
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.