Planning Manager - Hertfordshire

Contract Type: Permanent

Full Time - 40 hours - Monday to Friday

Salary - £70,000 - £90,000

We are recruiting for a Planning Manager to lead the design and build of a new substation in Suffolk. The contract with Scottish Power is to support their East Anglia windfarm in the Southern North Sea. The project forms a vital part of Britain's transition to renewable energy and Net Zero.

Reporting to the Project Director, the Planning Manager will be responsible for all planning associated with the delivery of the project. The project involves carrying out significant earth moving operations on the greenfield site, new roads and road junctions, reinforced concrete works and steel framed superstructures housing the next generation of equipment to deliver balanced renewable power into the National Grid. Design and environmental consent works are already underway, and construction will commence in spring next year with a planned handover and energisation to grid in December 2027.

Duties

• Ensure that all activities are planned with time allocated for HSE needs such as documentation and approvals, training, competency checks etc.
• Ensure the plan and programme incorporate allowance for safe working methods and timely construction. This is likely to include stage diagrams to explain the proposed sequence.
• Identify risk to the programme, make time risk allowance in the programme and contribute to the tender risk and opportunity schedule/register.
• Be aware of the bid win strategy and contribute to the strategy with innovation options.
• Communicate the methods proposed and the sequence of the plan to the project team utilising visual aids (e.g. stage diagrams; sequence diagrams etc.) to suit.
• Liaise with the Estimating and temporary works departments to ensure allowance is made in Preliminaries and the programme for temporary works.
• Challenge and verify suppliers and sub-contractors programme and methodology
• Determine the requirements for Site set-up and independently prepare phasing, logistics and time slices along with associated methodology/narratives as required by the tender deliverables

Person Specification

• Degree qualified within an engineering discipline or equivalent
• Extensive experience in planning on civil engineering or building projects, either office or site based.
• Advanced use of specialist software e.g. Primavera P6, CAD, PowerPoint , 4Projects etc.
• Professional Membership: ICE or APM Membership is desirable

If you would like to find out more about this opportunity OR are keen to apply you can do so by contacting Thomas Barber via 07710096554/ t.barber@calco.co.uk  You can also apply directly via this advert.

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