Job Description

We're looking for a NEC Planner to join our Highways team based in Brixworth, Northamptonshire. In this role you will play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of major infrastructure projects and the long-term maintenance contract that have a lasting impact on communities.
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire - travel to the office required with some remote working available
Hours: Permanent Fulltime 40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: 55,000 - 65,000 per year + benefits
What will you be responsible for?
As an NEC Planner within the Major Projects team, you will play a key role in developing detailed programmes, tracking progress, identifying potential risks, and ensuring the effective delivery of construction and maintenance activities.
Your day to day will include:

• Develop, manage, and refine detailed project schedules aligned to project objectives and key milestones
• Contribute to the planning, phasing, coordination and sequencing for tenders and live projects, incorporating design, procurement, and pre-construction activities into logic-linked programmes
• Collaborate with internal teams, contractors, and clients to drive engagement and secure commitment to delivery plans
• Ensure full compliance with NEC4 contractual requirements and programme submissions

What are we looking for?
This role of NEC Planner is great for you if:

• Proven experience in planning major highways infrastructure projects within NEC4 contract environments
• Ability to produce, manage, and analyse complex, logic-linked programmes
• Experience in scheduling risks and impacts of change, providing clear mitigation strategies and supporting contract compliance

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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Skills Required