Define responsibility for building and maintaining construction programmes, testing progress evidence and reporting schedule risk without making unauthorised commitments.
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When to use this contract
Deliver logic-linked and evidence-based programmes, clear progress, critical-path and forecast reporting, and tested recovery and change scenarios.
Workplace context: Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
What makes this role different
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering programme integrity. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering commercial confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering site progress access. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering deadline and change reporting. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering site rules.
Not a fit / obtain specialist advice
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The planner may analyse and recommend sequencing. Contractual acceptance, resource commitment, baseline change and external date promise require project or commercial authority. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
What to prepare before you issue it
the projects, sectors and programme stages assigned
the planning software and information systems provided
the office, site and hybrid-working pattern
the authority to issue, revise or communicate programmes
the progress-measurement and reporting cycle
the role in claims, delay analysis and client meetings
Day-to-day operating brief
What Planner work looks like in practice
A construction planner develops programmes, tests sequencing and reports progress and delay using project evidence. The contract should protect honest reporting and distinguish programme analysis from authority to promise dates, direct contracts or accept delay liability.
Responsibilities reflected in the contract
Develop project programmes from approved scope and delivery information.
Coordinate sequencing and dependencies with site, design and commercial teams.
Update progress using reliable records and agreed data dates.
Analyse delay, critical paths and recovery options.
Prepare programme reports and clearly state assumptions or limitations.
Control programme versions and preserve baseline and change evidence.
A realistic working scenario
A project team asks the planner to show recovery without confirmed labour or design release. The planner models the scenario separately, records assumptions and keeps the approved baseline and current forecast intact for management decision.
Outputs to agree
logic-linked and evidence-based programmes
clear progress, critical-path and forecast reporting
tested recovery and change scenarios
Records and evidence
Baseline and accepted programme.
Progress status and data date.
Assumption, constraint and risk log.
Change, delay and approval history.
Work records.
Handover notes.
Reporting relationship
Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.
Authority and escalation
The planner may analyse and recommend sequencing. Contractual acceptance, resource commitment, baseline change and external date promise require project or commercial authority.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Tools and systems
Site records.
Project systems.
Risk assessment records.
Workplace context
Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
Training and certification
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Contract priorities
programme integrity
commercial confidentiality
site progress access
deadline and change reporting
Information the employer should prepare
the projects, sectors and programme stages assigned
the planning software and information systems provided
the office, site and hybrid-working pattern
the authority to issue, revise or communicate programmes
the progress-measurement and reporting cycle
the role in claims, delay analysis and client meetings
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.
Maintained role evidence
The facts this Planner contract is built around
These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for construction work.
Work setting
Construction sites, project offices, client sites and approved work locations.
Primary duties
Develop project programmes from approved scope and delivery information.
Coordinate sequencing and dependencies with site, design and commercial teams.
Update progress using reliable records and agreed data dates.
Analyse delay, critical paths and recovery options.
Tools and training to confirm
Site records.
Project systems.
Risk assessment records.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Governance focus
HSE context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering programme integrity. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering commercial confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering site progress access.
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Planner duties
Deliver logic-linked and evidence-based programmes, clear progress, critical-path and forecast reporting, and tested recovery and change scenarios.
Develop project programmes from approved scope and delivery information. Coordinate sequencing and dependencies with site, design and commercial teams. Update progress using reliable records and agreed data dates. Analyse delay, critical paths and recovery options. Prepare programme reports and clearly state assumptions or limitations.
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What is added to the finished contract
The planner may analyse and recommend sequencing. Contractual acceptance, resource commitment, baseline change and external date promise require project or commercial authority.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering programme integrity.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering commercial confidentiality.
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Only through the project's authorised change and acceptance process, preserving the prior baseline and reason.
How should an unconfirmed recovery plan be shown?
Label assumptions and scenario status clearly rather than present uncommitted resources or dates as the approved forecast.
Can a Construction Planner change the contract programme?
They may prepare revisions within authority, but formal acceptance, contractual dates and commitments should follow the project's approval and notice process.
How should progress be measured?
Use agreed evidence and a stated data date, distinguishing completed work from forecast, unverified reports and activities that are only partly complete.
Can the role support delay claims?
Yes. Define the analysis and record-gathering expected while reserving legal positions, formal notices and claim settlement for authorised commercial decision-makers.
Should regular site visits be included?
Where required, state frequency, travel, PPE, access and how observations are reconciled with site diaries, quantities and management reports.
Who approves a recovery programme?
The planner can model options, but resource, cost and client commitments require the relevant project, commercial and director approval.
What programme records should be retained?
Keep baselines, updates, calendars, logic, assumptions, data dates, change notes, progress evidence and issue or approval history in the controlled project file.