Framework Coordinator = Planning Engineer at BAM Nuttall [ Edit ]
Privately Held ; Civil Engineering industry
April 2004 – August 2009 (5 years 5 months)

John Martin Construction (part of Edmund Nuttall, now BAM Nuttall) as Framework Co-ordinator on highway maintenance contract in the West Midlands (HA Area 9), promoted to Senior Planner for areas 9 & 10 2006. I monitor 2 or 3 running projects - which I normally have planned from ECI stage - plus early contractor involvement with the Highways Agency’s designer AmeyMouchel [now Amey] and A-one-plus on future projects, including adapting the programme to suit the pricing, values of projects from £ 500 000 to £6 million. Trained as AIP writer, Temporary Works Co-ordinator and Appointed Person Cranes (with CPCS card). There is a lot of liaison with other specialists to produce a sensible programme that is achievable but not ridiculous, some liaison with the designers on optimum solutions, often planning 2 or 3 versions, and buildability. On fast track projects also do twice weekly short term programming and liaison. Also involved in developing planning procedures, lift plans, method statements, risk registers, etc. Working as part of the team on ECC projects, mainly in SureTrak, some work in MS Project, use of ChainLink on a linear project, used a lean construction method to gain certainty of end date on some projects. Retired end of August 2009