1 Senior Planner roles in Portsmouth

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Planner with our growing business, you’ll be:

• Responsible at tender stage to the Planning Lead or Bid Manager for the range of activities involved in the project planning life cycle


• Ensuring that the programme content is functionally compliant with the planning procedures and guidance.


• Identifying planning scope, major constraints and contract requirements


• Identifying major quantities and factors affecting the programme


• Establishing and agreeing with Operations construction outputs and agree working hours with appropriate Estimator


• Establishing and agreeing with Operations and Bid Team key methods of construction, sequencing, installation and commissioning.

Who we're looking for

You will need the following:

• Have significant experience of planning services – ideally within construction


• Know how to use planning techniques and planning toolsets


• Understand tender documents, contracts and specifications


• Understand various methods of planning, programming and progress monitoring


• Want to work with people – we’re about teamwork, not siloes


• Develop relationships, trust and confidence to get every team to do what’s needed


• Be unflappable as situations change, plans evolve and decisions need making.

Why work for us

If you’re inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Senior Planner. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you’ll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. Apply now.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace.  Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.  Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible and we would be happy to explore this with you. 

To find out more about our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, visit our website at https://www.balfourbeatty.com/how-we-work/diversity-and-inclusion/  

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with disabled people and people with long-term health conditions, to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. 

Further information about Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/