Senior Rail Planner – OLE experience in North West, United Kingdom
Senior Rail Planner – OLE experience
Location: North West
About us
Work with Amey on the UK’s most exciting rail project!
TRU is a once-in-a-generation rail upgrade programme to deliver faster, longer, more frequent and more reliable rail services across the north of England, from Newcastle, Hull and York towards Manchester and Liverpool via Leeds. By connecting the major cities of the North with an enhanced, more reliable service, it has the potential to impact the lives of thousands of passengers and support economic growth across the whole of the north of England.
Amey, in partnership with Arup, BAM and Network Rail is upgrading the route between Manchester and Leeds, which includes civils, track, railway systems and electrification. The opportunity to use modern digital signalling and train control also means we can lay the foundation for the Digital Railway.
Working with Amey on TRU is essential for anyone serious about a career in rail. You will be pioneering new techniques, using the latest technology and helping us set new standards for collaborative working. Fundamental to living our core values is having great people in our business. That's why we believe that Amey is only as great as the people we employ.
The role
You will lead Planning for multidisciplinary schemes and provide expert planning support and mentoring. As the Senior Rail Planner you will have an OLE Design & Construction background, provide resource information for the business utilising existing systems and develop new systems to meet business needs. You will lead and develop business improvement and reporting within the project.
Key accountabilities
You will:
- Extract and provide business data using existing software systems, including Primavera to prepare and provide resource and cost information for the business.
- Provide expert leadership, mentoring, guidance and participation in the assessment, development and enhancement of planning systems within the business.
- Provide weekly planning, cost and resource information including utilisation and efficiency ratios for the business as required for the Engineering, Resource and Project teams.
- Interface and provide the required information to the Project teams to enable Project Management reporting, including cost planning.
- Proactively improve and enhance utilisation of resources, efficiencies and Project deliverables in conjunction with Project, Engineering and Resource teams.
- Establish clear communications and work effectively with members of the team.
Skills & experience
Essential:
- Relevant HND / HNC academic qualifications or equivalent and appropriate (10 years) planning delivery experience on large projects.
- Primavera experience - Advanced level.
- Commercially experienced and competent using Primavera systems for cost control.
- Experience in cost planning, resource management and rostering systems.
- Senior Project and Bid Management experience.
- Experience to lead and implement new planning processes.
- Ability to plan multi-disciplinary schemes.
- Experienced to mentor and ability to identify and share best practice.
- Computer literacy – including operation of excel in full functionality and technical experience of a wide range of planning systems.
Please click the 'Apply' button now to complete your application on the 'Amey' website.
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