Project Planner (M&E)

Kane Group are an established, and successful multi-disciplinary building-services solution contractor, with our Head Office based in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.

We're an innovative, forward-thinking company with continued steady growth serving residential, hospitality, education, commercial and healthcare sectors with offices in Northern Ireland, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and the Republic of Ireland.

We are actively seeking a Project Planner to join the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce programmes ensuring that all key design, procurement and construction activities are captured, and logic linked to identify the critical path.
• Collate & validate project progress & programme constraints and report to Senior Management
• Regular visits to site to conduct review of progress and review with team delays, risks and critical path analysis.
• Ability to produce detailed programmes and options quickly as required by clients.
• Develop relationships with internal teams, consultants and clients.
• Work closely with the Site Team to manage all programme and planning activities on the allocated project
• Prepare short term programmes and carry out any project specific exercises such as re-programming and allocating resources.
• Attend meetings as required including team meetings, sub-contractor and design meetings.
• Monitor any changes and assess the impact on the agreed programmes.
• Where applicable, carry out delay analysis and prepare reports to assist with any EOT applications.
• Suggest programme recovery actions or programme betterment opportunities.
• Maintain full change log records, for all programmes, as per Planning Process

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Qualifications: HNC/Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management or similar

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of tender stage planning and/or onsite planning within a developer/ contracting organisation
• Excellent MEP knowledge in terms of the infrastructure, installation and commissioning sequences of M&E services
• Excellent knowledge of the construction process from feasibility to handover
• Excellent appreciation of the issues and challenges of developing and managing project programmes for residential building projects through all lifecycle stages.
• Proven understanding of the full project cycle and any relative constraints.
• Excellent IT skills and relevant knowledge of Planning software including Asta PowerProject/ MS Project

Abilities & Skills

• Methodical, imaginative, and analytical thinker, with practical construction experience combined with sound knowledge of planning, programming and control processes
• Self-motivated with excellent time and project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work unsupervised, individually or as part of a team, to a very high standard.

• Proficient in communication (both written and verbal)
• Organised and structured approach to your work.
• Ability to work within an environment with deadlines while having to multi-task with multiple priorities
• High attention to detail

Benefits

• Cash Health Plan to include Employee Assistance Programme
• 4 x Salary Death in Service cover
• Auto Enrolment Company Pension scheme (Salary Sacrifice)
• Company Sick Pay Scheme, which is available upon successful completion of probation, and increases with service
• Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
• Paid professional subscriptions
• Variety of employee discounts
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Corporate Gym discount for Kane employees
• Branded clothing
• Active Social and Wellbeing Committees
• Annual Health Checks
• Awards for long service
• Additional annual leave based on length of service
• Training and development opportunities.

Kane is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.