Job Description

We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our team based in our thriving London Regional Business. Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, and even more, flexible working, exposure across multiple projects and the opportunity for career development.

Location: London, England

Contract: Permanent, Full Time/ Flexible / Hybrid

Key responsibilities

As a Senior Planner, you will be working within the Construction Delivery and Pre Construction Teams to offer planning expertise Retaining an overall monitoring capacity for complex projects to ensure construction plans are created, updated, and amended in line with project needs.

Your day to day will include:

\xc2\xb7 Producing tender programmes

\xc2\xb7 Attending regular site visits to assist the team with planning issues

\xc2\xb7 Collating progress information and understanding any areas of concern during the planning stage

\xc2\xb7 Creating workable construction programmes, monitoring and updating

\xc2\xb7 Advising and providing planning expertise across projects

Who are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is great for you if:

\xc2\xb7 Have construction planning experience gained within the contractor environment

\xc2\xb7 You have a solid history of working on build tenders and projects between \xc2\xa320M - \xc2\xa380M in value

\xc2\xb7 You are an experienced operator of Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project software

\xc2\xb7 You are based within commuting distance of London

\xc2\xb7 You enjoy working across projects with a wide range of stakeholders and colleagues.

\xc2\xb7 You can manage you own diary across multiple projects

We\xe2\x80\x99re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don\xe2\x80\x99t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier:

We\xe2\x80\x99re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

\xc2\xb7 New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more

\xc2\xb7 26 days\xe2\x80\x99 annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday)

\xc2\xb7 Two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan)

\xc2\xb7 A free healthcare app giving you access to clinicians and experts on fertility, pregnancy and baby, menopause and men\xe2\x80\x99s health

\xc2\xb7 An additional two days\xe2\x80\x99 leave to take part in volunteering activities of your choice

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:

Who is Kier?

We\xe2\x80\x99re made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives:

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We\xe2\x80\x99re proud of the steps we\xe2\x80\x99ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier\xe2\x80\x99s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here:

Closing date: 8 August 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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Kier Group