Ashleigh was promoted to Planner in October 2018, after <4 years as Trainee Planner. With no previous construction experience, through the Kier Development programme, she will this year graduate with a Construction Management BSc (Hons) degree. Her ability to learn new skills, assimilate information and manage complex situations; and effectively collaborate with her colleagues, stakeholders and supply chain, has resulted in her fast-track in a very short period of time. Responsibilities include:
- Programme production, from tender to completion stages, with a full resource schedule, histogram, outputs and rates for activities to achieve the most optimum period
- Challenging buildability and methodology, to improve on quality and final delivery
- Rationalising proposals for planning and logistics, to enable full understanding
- Careful planning of challenging logistics
- Construction planning and project controls; precise programme
management, progress reporting and design coordination - Production, monitoring and progressing of all design, procurement and construction programme solutions, and preparing internal reports
- Client liaison, managing and coordinating design teams and subcontractors
- Adding value to site teams by helping to produce short-term look-ahead programmes and attending subcontractor coordination meetings
- Maintaining and monitoring the ‘Notices to Commence’ trackers, to ensure
subcontractors are commencing each section of work in-line with the programme in their order - Promoting and maintaining clear and accurate records from site, such as labour counts, as-built programmes, images and marked-up drawings, to support both Kier and our subcontractors
- Utilising new technologies, such as integrating BIM models with the programming software
- Understands and engages with our safety culture
