£30K/yr to £60K/yr
England, United Kingdom
Permanent, Variable

Assistant Planner

Posted by Vistry Group PLC.

Role overview

  • ID: 2024-5701
  • Entity: Vistry
  • Region: Vistry East London
  • Department: Build
  • Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
  • Job Location: Warley office 2 days per week, sites 3 days per week,
  • Date Posted: 04.06.2024

We have a great opportunity for an Assistant Planner to join our team within Vistry East London, at our Warley office with travel to sites across the region. As our Assistant Planner, you will regularly walk site to review progress and maintain the project programmes / build schedules and coordinate with all departments involved.

  • Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you...

  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus

  • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance

  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays

  • Private Healthcare

  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave

  • Competitive contributory pension scheme

  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary

  • Share incentive schemes

  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...

  • In return, what we would like from you...

  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality

  • Experience of housing projects

  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)

  • Good communication skills

  • Good organisational skills

  • Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised

  • Proactive

  • Organised and methodical

  • Able to work effectively in a fast-moving organisation

Desirable...

  • Asta Power projects

  • Concrete frame experience

  • More about the Assistant Planner role...

  • Update and maintain the Build Schedules and Trackers on a weekly basis and provide narrative highlighting risks against the delivery requirements of each block/core.

  • To liaise and assist the project managers in the production of the construction, and target programmes, ensuring that the contract period and delivery forecasts are not disrupted.

  • Provide progress droplines to the client.

  • Assist in the creation of Exit Strategies to the Client prior to Handover.

  • Ensure that all revised programmes are promptly issued to the relevant departments/personnel in the company format.

  • Assist in the creation of site logistic drawings in line with the evolving build environment.

  • To attend all project meetings as required.

  • Able to manage multiple sites.

Finally, let's tell you a bit more about us...

We're Vistry Group, the UK's leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they're needed most.

You're probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there's nowhere better to build your career. We're proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

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Benefits

Agile Working

Offers a flexible way of working.

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days' holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry

Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.