Senior Planner
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | TW7 7LR |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9190 |
Summary
We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Natural Resources team, working on our major project for Thames water at Mogden, Twickenham. In this role you'll lead planning to deliver programmes of work within non-infrastructure schemes like upgrades to wastewater treatment works.
Location: Working from site at Mogden, Twickenham Contract: Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know
Responsibilities
We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our NRNN business unit. You'll lead the planning and be responsible for ensuring that the Planning function plays a pivotal role in the successful delivery of assigned projects(s) / packages. This will generally be on large, complex multi-discipline (Civils and MEICA) infrastructure projects in the Water sector and you'll be responsible for developing robust programmes, monitoring progress, identifying risks, and ensuring the successful execution of assigned projects(s) / packages.
Your day to day will include:
-Being the programming and planning conscience on a water asset management programme of works.
-Be the lead in Planning to deliver all programme and project controls outputs for your assigned works and assist others for the wider works.
-Accountable for ensuring full compliance with contractual requirements, including programme submissions, early warnings and change management.
-Produce comprehensive programmes from 1st principles.
-Review resource loading, and maintain schedule resources in a Primavera P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work.
What are we looking for?This Senior Planner is great for you if you have:
-Relevant onsite experience in a role with transferrable skills on complex, major Construction Industry projects.
-Knowledge of Site works and methodology, construction phasing, sequencing, and integration of design, procurement and delivery activities of Project lifecycles.
-Able to understand design (/technical) information, drawings, specifications, interpret markups and contract documents.
-Proven understanding of plant, equipment, labour and material requirements for carrying out works and typical production rates.
-Relevant Construction Industry / Water Sector related degree (or experience and training).
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.
There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!
Rewards and benefitsWe're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusionMaking Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-CH1
Location: Working from site at Mogden, Twickenham Contract: Permanent, Full Time - flexible and part time hours may be available if desired, just let us know
Responsibilities
We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our NRNN business unit. You'll lead the planning and be responsible for ensuring that the Planning function plays a pivotal role in the successful delivery of assigned projects(s) / packages. This will generally be on large, complex multi-discipline (Civils and MEICA) infrastructure projects in the Water sector and you'll be responsible for developing robust programmes, monitoring progress, identifying risks, and ensuring the successful execution of assigned projects(s) / packages.
Your day to day will include:
-Being the programming and planning conscience on a water asset management programme of works.
-Be the lead in Planning to deliver all programme and project controls outputs for your assigned works and assist others for the wider works.
-Accountable for ensuring full compliance with contractual requirements, including programme submissions, early warnings and change management.
-Produce comprehensive programmes from 1st principles.
-Review resource loading, and maintain schedule resources in a Primavera P6 environment, to support project management decisions on sequences of work.
What are we looking for?This Senior Planner is great for you if you have:
-Relevant onsite experience in a role with transferrable skills on complex, major Construction Industry projects.
-Knowledge of Site works and methodology, construction phasing, sequencing, and integration of design, procurement and delivery activities of Project lifecycles.
-Able to understand design (/technical) information, drawings, specifications, interpret markups and contract documents.
-Proven understanding of plant, equipment, labour and material requirements for carrying out works and typical production rates.
-Relevant Construction Industry / Water Sector related degree (or experience and training).
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.
There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!
Rewards and benefitsWe're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusionMaking Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-CH1
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