
Planner
John Sisk & Son Ltd
Planner
John Sisk & Son, a family-owned international construction company, is seeking a Planner for their Data Centre team in Amsterdam. The role involves developing, managing, and monitoring construction programmes, ensuring safe and efficient project delivery. The ideal candidate has proven planning experience in large-scale construction, proficiency in planning software like Asta Powerproject, and strong communication skills.
Planner
John Sisk & Son, a family-owned international construction company, is seeking a Planner for their Data Centre team in Amsterdam. The role involves developing, managing, and monitoring construction programmes, ensuring safe and efficient project delivery. The ideal candidate has proven planning experience in large-scale construction, proficiency in planning software like Asta Powerproject, and strong communication skills.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of baseline contract programmes, ensuring full logic links and a clear critical path.
- Prepare construction target programmes that identify opportunities for efficiency and improvement.
- Develop tender event programmes for subcontractor procurement, including design release and lead-in activities.
- Maintain and manage programme documentation within a Common Data Environment (CDE).
- Create 4D models and/or 2D phasing plans to illustrate build sequences, logistics and phasing strategies.
- Collaborate with project teams to develop construction methodologies that clearly demonstrate sequencing and safe delivery.
- Support preparation of project preliminaries, including staff resource planning, logistics and temporary works.
- Engage with the supply chain to incorporate design deliverables, lead-in times, construction durations and resource requirements.
- Identify programme risks and opportunities, incorporating mitigation strategies, float and time risk allowances.
- Develop and monitor tracking schedules to validate subcontractor programmes.
- Produce as-built programmes, highlighting deviations from the baseline.
- Provide input into change requests, advising on programme impacts and supporting timely approvals.
- Use 2D/4D phasing information to represent current programme status and progress.
- Produce validated output rates to track live project progress and feed lessons learned into future tenders.
- Undertake peer reviews of programmes to ensure quality, accuracy and consistency across projects.
- Report regularly to Regional Planners and project leadership on programme status, risks and progress.
- Support and mentor assistant/graduate planners, carrying out performance and development reviews.
- Lead and coordinate planning and programme management activities in pre-construction and on-site phases.
- Contribute to assessments of programme entitlements under relevant contracts (e.g., NEC, JCT) in collaboration with commercial and project teams.
- Lead weekly and monthly reporting of programme status to project stakeholders.
- Ensure quality and consistency in all programme documents prepared under their responsibility.
- Benchmark programme durations using subcontractor input, previous project data and team consultation.