Senior Planner

Wates Construction is seeking a Senior Planner to join their Suffolk team, focusing on high-profile and complex projects. The role requires a collaborative individual with strong analytical skills and planning expertise to provide effective planning and programming services. Key responsibilities include monitoring performance criteria, integrating design elements, producing tender programmes, and managing changes. Wates offers a competitive salary, flexible working, and extensive benefits, including a profit share scheme and comprehensive family leave. Committed to equality and inclusion, Wates values long-term relationships and is recognised for their commitment to employee development and support.

The Vacancy
Wates Construction are looking for a Senior Planner to join our team in Suffolk, delivering high-profile, technically complex projects.
We’re looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, brings sharp analytical thinking and proven planning expertise, and is eager to challenge the norm with innovative solutions. If you’re ready to make an impact and push boundaries in your planning career, we’d love to hear from you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our Senior Planners are a valuable part of our business, the focus of this role is to provide an effective and professional planning and programming services for pre-contract and project teams.
As our Senior Planner you will:
Instigate and monitor a balanced suite of performance measurement criteria throughout a project’s lifecycle
Ensure proper integration of design and procurement elements of programmes with construction
Produce integrated tender programme and method statement and present proposals to settlement meeting
Change management: review programme effect of changes and advise on EOT issues
Produce schedules as well as obtain and analyse quotes for all time-related preliminaries
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive salary & profit share scheme
Flexible working
Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)
Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.
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We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all of the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.  
If you would like clarity on any of our vacancies, discuss career opportunities in strict confidence or need anything to make our recruitment process easier, please contact our In-House Recruitment Team directly or via and one of us will get in touch as soon as possible.  
As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships. 
Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.
To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.