Some see what’s behind them. We see what’s beyond.

Role: Senior Planner

Location: Stirling

Challenges. Opportunities. Solutions. At Robertson, we see them our way. We’re bold enough to ask questions. Brave enough to look at things differently. Confident enough to be ourselves. Join us and you’ll join the UK’s largest family-owned construction, infrastructure and support services business. And as a Senior Planner you’ll be part of a team that’s doing incredible things – for ourselves, for the built environment around us, and for a truly sustainable future

About the role

Overseeing the Planning process, you’ll exemplify our commitment to Health & Safety, and ensuring quality and best practice will be second nature to you. As a Senior Planner. you’ll be responsible for: 

• Produce construction programmes for internal and external use
• Produce critical path analysis for projects as required
• Assist project managers with production of detailed programmes
• Produce labour and other resource loaded programmes to create overall projected resource requirements
• Produce progress reports for monthly meetings
• Produce tender programmes
• Produce tender site investigation reports
• Produce technical information for company pre-qualification presentations
• Attend presentations when required
• Train and coach the on-site management in planning techniques
• Develop planning software use to meet the needs of the company and identify ways of improving our planning systems
• Liaise with commercial and delivery teams to ensure that correct outputs are being utilised and that sub-contractor’s programmes are achievable
• Produce Information Required Schedules and monitor to ensure each designer provides design information to meet both our procurement and construction programmes working closely with the site team
• Produce Procurement Schedules working closely with the site commercial and delivery teams
• Implement build ability reviews to reduce the cost to RCENW, improve the value to the Client and reduce programme time
• Monitor all necessary consents to ensure they are obtained timeously in order that construction can proceed to programme, dealing with external third parties as necessary
• Monitor the Reviewable Design Data process (RDD) and the Variation Request process (VR) to ensure programme is met by working closely with the Project Manager and SQS
• Attend meetings with the Regional Team, site team, sub-contractors and Clients as necessary
• Flag up any potential programme risks and suggest mitigation strategy to Project Manager/Regional Team
• Build a close working relationship with the Robertson deliver staff
• Provide planning advice into pre-construction workload as and when required
• Follow Company Quality Management Procedures

About you

As a Senior Planner you’ll have experience in a Planning role or significant experience in front-end construction project management, with ability to operate at a strategic level, reviewing and developing procedures to reflect industry best practice. Knowledge of design, procurement and commercial processes, and the interdependencies and impact on planning and programming is essential. You’ll be ambitious and be able to pursue a career where you can grow and progress.

Our Principles - The Robertson Way 

Our principles are our roadmap to achieving positive outcomes and delivering on our purpose. They influence daily decisions around what we do and how we do things, creating an environment of growth, innovation and high performance.  

We listen 

Listening enables us to work positively and collaboratively, and gives customers, partners and colleagues the assurance that their voices are always heard. 

We are professional 

Our mix of prudence and diligence, care and attention to detail means that our customers have certainty and assurance in everything we do and trust us to deliver. 

We take responsibility 

Each of us is accountable for what we do. From the smallest detail to team safety and caring for our communities and the environment, we know that everything matters. 

We are determined to succeed 

Every challenge is an opportunity. We work collaboratively and focus on safety, productivity and quality to find solutions we can be proud of and that provide a positive, lasting benefit. 

We are one team 

We work as one - in our teams and partnerships, and with our customers. We respect each contribution, and everyone stands up to be counted. We are Team Robertson. 

For more information on our principles and culture, please visit: https://www.robertson.co.uk/careers/culture 

Benefits of working with Robertson: 

In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and employee benefits such as: 

• 33 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time or FTC positions, increases with length of service) 

• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme  

• Life Assurance 

• Cycle to Work Scheme  

• Discounts (gym memberships, restaurants, days out etc.) with Hapi Rewards App 

• Annual Flu Vaccine 

• Access to E-Learning 

• Health & Wellbeing Support 

• Life Management & Financial Support 

Diversity & Inclusion: 

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Robertson. That’s why we’re working hard to create an environment where everyone can feel welcome, and where we can all be ourselves. We encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more - so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too. 

Apply now  

If you’ve got what it takes to look at things differently, to find new perspectives, and to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, we’d love to meet you. To apply for this role and to start seeing things our way, submit your CV. 

This role will be subject to pre-employment screening, including references. The level of screening may vary depending on role responsibilities and will be discussed at interview.