Senior Planning Manager

Position status: This opportunity is for a secured role that is due to commence in January subject to approval. If you would like to be considered as we progress with this position, please click to apply.

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site .

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

The project:

P6 senior planner to work across a number of large-scale construction projects.

Your responsibilities:

• Advocate for Mace’s value of safety first, and be accountable for leading and maintaining exceptional safety, quality, cost, programme, sustainability, and project compliance standards.

• Possess expertise in local health and safety rules and regulations relevant to the project portfolio.

• Champion a diverse and inclusive working environment, and understand the importance of the wellbeing of the people you manage.

• Manage the delivery of key assignments and defined business areas, providing strategic direction and monitoring delivery aligned with overall vision and objectives.

• Support the long-term success of planning performance for specified engines/sectors/hubs, and the overall contribution to the broader company goals.

• Support the planning function in ensuring projects and tenders are effectively planned, scheduled, and monitored.

• Lead the application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques, and tools.

• Maintain a good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, EVM, project controls methodologies.

• Advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively.

• Manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects/programmes.

• Play a key role in multidisciplinary teams and take a lead role in creating plans or analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques.

• Lead and manage a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and be responsible for staff development.

• Maintain excellent written communication skills, clear & concise.

• Stay up to date with key industry/professional trends as a planning/schedule management specialist.

• Possess in-depth knowledge of schedule management tools & software.

• Provide effective & timely advice to clients.

• Understand data management.

• Clearly understand role & future career paths available from that position.

• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail & validate & check schedule management inputs, recording & reports produced, providing basic commentary & analysis.

• Manage assistants and planning managers where required by the scale of the project.

• Persuade and influence colleagues.

• Influence clients to accept proposals and recommendations.

• Satisfy customer requirements.

• Tackle problems that don’t have an obvious solution.

• Delegate tasks to others.

• Sell the business and win work.

• Create and deliver persuasive presentations to large audiences.

• Spot and develop talented individuals.

You’ll need to have:

• Exposure to working as a Primavera P6 project planner on large scale civil engineering/infrastructure projects ideally for a tier 1 contractor or a client-side consultancy.

• A construction-related degree (civil/structural engineering, or construction/project management or equivalent).

• Be digitally savvy, able to build lasting client relationships and lead strong, motivated teams.

• Experience of working on large projects/programmes.

• A construction or project management background and a desire to grow your career.

• Experience in managing a large portfolio of projects.

• Ability to mentor and upskill inexperienced planners.

• Experience in implementing planning principles within the project management community.

• Ability to work with a large range of stakeholders.

• Experience in planning complicated infrastructure projects and summarising these into portfolio level schedules.

• Experience in construction – living accommodation, offices, workshops, sports facilities, associated infrastructure.

• Familiarity with other planning software – Microsoft Project, Asta Power Project.

• Experience as an advanced P6 user (P6 pro).

• Familiarity with P6 EPPM (Web) – for config management.

• Experience in managing large data sets into simple reporting formats, through coding and layout manipulation.

• Knowledge of baseline control and configuration.

• Experience with schedule import and export.

• Knowledge of schedule risk analysis (QSRA).

• Experience with P6 configuration management – user access, OBS creation and management, user profiles, OBS assignation.

• Ability to set up and use resources.

• Experience using P6 for EVM.

You’ll also have:

• Membership of APM, RICS, CIOB, ICE, AACE, IRM, IEMA or equivalent demonstrable professional or personal development.

• Deep property or infrastructure project management expertise.

• Strong commercial and financial acumen.

• Leadership and management experience of large, diverse teams.

• Experience of managing relationships with key senior stakeholders.

• Knowledge of how carbon and sustainability considerations will shape the outlook of the projects you are working on.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

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