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Senior Planner
| Posting date: | 31 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 April 2026 |
| Location: | PE19 6YH |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10621 |
Summary
We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Bedford to Cambridge team based in St Neots. As part of our planning team, you'll use your expertise to support construction delivery teams and influence the successful delivery of major infrastructure projects. This role provides a strong platform to further develop your planning techniques while making a meaningful contribution to projects that shape local communities.
Location: St Neots, PE19 6WL - remote working available, with minimum presence per week at the office requiredHours: Permanent Fulltime 42 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per year + private healthcare + £6.7k annual car allowance + excellent benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Senior Planner, you'll be at the heart of programme development and monitoring, working collaboratively with delivery teams and senior stakeholders to ensure smooth project progression.
Your day to day will include:
-Developing and maintaining detailed programmes using P6, including progress updates and resource management
-Running planning meetings with delivery teams to capture progress and identify potential delays
-Creating clear reports and visual presentations for senior leadership and clients
-Supporting commercial teams with contract management and change implications
-Establishing monitoring techniques to demonstrate team performance through dashboards and trackers
What are we looking for?
The Senior Planner role is suited for candidates with:
-Strong knowledge of civil engineering in roads, structures, and earthworks, with knowledge of design survey works desirable (inc.; ground investigation, archaeology trenching and building/structural surveys, etc)
-Proficiency in Primavera P6 for resource management, float path analysis, and S-curve creation
-Ability to interpret baseline data and provide actionable insights
-A relevant CSCS card and working towards or holding a professional qualification
-Effective communication skills and experience collaborating with diverse teams
Rewards and benefits
We'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 inclusion
Making 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-JB2
Location: St Neots, PE19 6WL - remote working available, with minimum presence per week at the office requiredHours: Permanent Fulltime 42 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per year + private healthcare + £6.7k annual car allowance + excellent benefits
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Senior Planner, you'll be at the heart of programme development and monitoring, working collaboratively with delivery teams and senior stakeholders to ensure smooth project progression.
Your day to day will include:
-Developing and maintaining detailed programmes using P6, including progress updates and resource management
-Running planning meetings with delivery teams to capture progress and identify potential delays
-Creating clear reports and visual presentations for senior leadership and clients
-Supporting commercial teams with contract management and change implications
-Establishing monitoring techniques to demonstrate team performance through dashboards and trackers
What are we looking for?
The Senior Planner role is suited for candidates with:
-Strong knowledge of civil engineering in roads, structures, and earthworks, with knowledge of design survey works desirable (inc.; ground investigation, archaeology trenching and building/structural surveys, etc)
-Proficiency in Primavera P6 for resource management, float path analysis, and S-curve creation
-Ability to interpret baseline data and provide actionable insights
-A relevant CSCS card and working towards or holding a professional qualification
-Effective communication skills and experience collaborating with diverse teams
Rewards and benefits
We'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 inclusion
Making 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-JB2
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