Senior Planner Rail

Senior Planner required for an Infrastructure specialist comprising of engineering and construction services active in the rail sector. They are renowned for their project planning capabilities and investing in their staff providing a highly skilled and equipped planners. Due to further project wins, they are now looking to add to their planning capabilities by recruiting a Senior Planner to lead on their planning and digital construction activities on a permanent basis out of the North West.
The Role
Working as a senior planner providing project planning services on a major rail project including both live projects and tenders.
Visible planning contact for the project team (including contractors and supply chain) to ensure clear understanding of project objectives.
Communicating with project team to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, the project programme and client requirements.
Overseeing:
the preparation maintaining project programmes, using P6
Reports on programmes, resource, and cost issues
Feedback and ensuring appropriate action
About You
Proven experience as a senior planner in the rail sector
Proven experience in working on projects within the CP5/CP6 framework / Network Rail GRIP processes for project delivery including Track, OLE, Signalling and Civils.
Previous experience in planning within rail civils projects
Good commercial awareness
Excellent people management skills