Senior Planner

Senior Planner

We're looking for a Senior Planner to join our Chiswell Office team based in London and the Thames Valley area.

Location: Site Based / Chiswell Office, London and Thames Valley

Hours: 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Based in our Chiswell Office, you will be working on multiple sites within London and the Thames Valley area. As a Senior Planner, you'll collaborate with our Pre Construction and Construction Delivery Teams, offering planning expertise on projects ranging from £5M to £100M+ in value. You'll work across various sectors including Health & Science, Residential, Commercial, Education, and Custodial. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a supportive Planning Department and make a real impact on successful project delivery.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Planner, you'll be working within the Planning team, supporting them in delivering planning expertise across multiple projects at tender, PCSA and delivery stages. Your day to day will include:

• Producing and managing fully integrated programmes incorporating all disciplines, with sufficient time risk allowances and agreement with trade packages
• Producing and monitoring tender event schedules, procurement schedules, site logistics and scaffold schedules
• Creating monthly client progressed programmes and internal planning progress reports, contributing to weekly project team reports
• Liaising with sub-contractors, attending site visits to assess progress independently and reviewing their programme information
• Forecasting programme scenarios, developing mitigation strategies and advising project teams with planning expertise

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Planner is great for you if:

• You have construction planning experience gained within the main contractor environment on build tenders and live projects
• You hold a construction-related academic qualification such as BSc or HNC/D
• You have experience with planning techniques and toolsets, particularly as an experienced user of Asta Powerproject
• You have a strong understanding of various methods of planning, programming and progress monitoring, as well as methods of construction, plant, equipment and labour requirements
• You have knowledge of NEC and JCT forms of contract, tender documents, contract documents and specifications

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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Location: London

Vacancy ID: 13236

Background check: None

Closing date: 18 Nov 2026

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Full Time

Flexible working: Yes

Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.

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