Senior Planning Engineer

Description and requirements

• At Skanska, we’re shaping the way we live, work and connect. As one of the world’s largest construction and development companies, we work together with customers, communities and partners to shape a better society.
• You will be working in the Infrastructure OU alongside our A47 Highways team in where our team brings design, build and refurbishment excellence to complex civil engineering projects nationwide – combining technical expertise with a passion for creating lasting value for people and places.
• In partnership with National Highways, we’re shaping the future of travel at the A47 Thickthorn junction. Two new free‑flowing slip roads will ease congestion and improve connections between the A47.
• We are currently looking for a Senior Planning Engineer who will develop, maintain and update the project programme to produce an accurate plan that manages time risk and that the project team and customer can trust.
• As the Senior Planning Engineer, you will:
• Develop and update the main project contract programme, ensuring it is of a high quality so that the programme suits the Project’s, Skanska’s and the Client’s needs.
• Measure actual progress against short and long-term plans via value adding production control tools to provide a holistic view of project performance outputting high-quality reports and dashboards that provide actionable insights to project leadership.
• Focusing the project team’s delivery against key project milestones by explaining the key drivers and follow-on dependencies to ensure delivery to plan.
• Lead the medium-term planning sessions alongside the delivery team to align with the main contract programme.
• Constructively challenges short-term programmes developed by the project team ensuring they are practicable and align with the main contract programme.
• We are looking for:
• Experience in the civils industry, ideally having worked on an RDP framework project in the Highways industry in a planning role.
• Experience of various methods of planning, programming, and progress monitoring ideally working for a Tier 1 construction contractor.
• Construction experience and technical understanding of engineering principles, construction techniques and best practices.
• Understanding of various forms of construction documents, contracts and specifications.