Construction Project Planner Leeds, England
Job description
At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.
We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.
Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.
We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.
We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.
When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.
Construction Project Planner
Working nationwide from Liverpool & Manchester offices.
Overview
We are seeking enthusiastic, ambitious, and hardworking Project Planners with good knowledge of best practice ASTA PowerProject and Primavera P6 software.
Able to maintain resourced project programmes with the experience of managing projects throughout their reporting life cycles including the mitigation for any slippages. The knowledge of best practice planning techniques and can update client programmes in front of the client.
Collaborates with others with the ability to make autonomous decisions guided by policies, procedures, and business objectives. Receives feedback from Senior Leaders and/or demonstrates ability to own large processes with minimal oversight. Is accountable, with minimal guidance, for the results of the team or the process establishing goals and objectives and adherence to budget and/or meeting deadlines.
Works with initial guidance to a point that the candidate can accomplish work autonomously or on small projects or portions of larger projects within established procedures and practices, with decisions guided by policy, procedure, business plan and senior supervisor.
Basic Construction Requirements
- Understands the Build Process, including inter-phasing of trades with the ability to identify sequence and/or dependencies of works and estimated durations including any time risk and resources.
- Understands any access or space requirements and able to identify external interfaces to the logic network. Working experience of interpreting drawings and specifications, together with take-off and calculate Quantities/Tonnages/Volumes would be a benefit.
- Able to identify any key resources to carry out the work, plant, access, labour, approvals and to identify safety concerns when creating a project plan.
Collaboration
- Understands the benefits of different communication methods and applies the principles.
- Effectively communicates with the client to ensure their needs are understood.
- Uses reflecting and summarising techniques to gather the complete picture.
Clients
- Understands the AECOM client development plan and the relevant market plan and uses this knowledge to develop the client relationship.
- Seeks best practice from other relevant clients to join the dots for their own client.
- Promotes the sharing of any innovation or best practice from their projects to others.
- Understands the client's needs/requirements and proactively goes further for them.
- Understands the importance of unflinching client focus.
- Anticipates future customer needs.
- Understands underlying and unspecified needs.
- Proactively monitors client feedback and acts as necessary.
Innovation
- Actively gains competency and works towards becoming a Senior Planner.
- Consistently produces high quality work that stands out with minimal supervision.
- Keeps up to date with market-place developments.
- Keeps up to date with changes that effect own area of work.
Decision Making
- Ensures available information is considered before making a decision.
- Reconsiders decisions in the light of new information.
- Is aware of procedures and precedents, can adjust procedures to accommodate new circumstances.
- Evaluates priorities and timescales.
- Informs others of decisions.
- Ensures decisions are made.
- Meets commitments without fail or updates individuals as necessary.
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
