Planner

We are recruiting for a Planner to join the team at an established regional business near Southampton to manage schemes up to £20 million. The contractor are an established regional business operating across Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex on negotiated and single stage bids up to £30 million but their sweetspot is the £8 to £20 million scheme and they work across education, care, student, leisure and retail as well as industrial schemes. Turnover is secured through til 2029 with other opportunities in the pipeline and have just been awarded 2no. new schemes to start in July this year. The role of Planner is to work primarily with the bid and estimating teams and help establish best practice and accurate forecasting at tender stages. You will initially help produce scope of works and bills of quantities and then assess and manage subcontractor responses and proposals and then take a detailed dive into their programmes and critical path and produce a master programme for each scheme. You will help with client meetings and dealing with external professional bodies as well. Once the project has been successfully bid and won you will help sense check the Project and Contract Managers look ahead programmes and maker sure both subcontractors and the site team are on target. You will have the full support of head office systems and you will work closely with the PM and delivery team to achieve the best results for the company. The role would suit an experienced Planner looking to work for a regional business and work on a wide variety and number of schemes so lots of plate spinning !. They would also be interested in talking to either Project or Contracts Managers who maybe looking to change lanes and move into a full time planning role.