Programme Planning Manager

About us

LNT Care Developments is the UK’s leading specialist developer and contractor of purpose-built residential care homes. With over 30 years’ experience and a fully vertically integrated delivery model, we are recognised for setting industry standards in care-led design, build quality, and regulatory compliance.

LNT Construction Limited, part of the LNT Care Developments Group, is seeking an experienced Programme Planning Manager to lead the planning and programming of multiple care home developments across our national portfolio. This key role will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimising project programmes, working closely with construction, commercial, design, and operational teams to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and on schedule. The successful candidate will have extensive construction planning experience, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a strong understanding of project sequencing, critical path analysis, and programme risk management.

Purpose of role

Working with the Managing Director, Commercial Director and Construction Directors the Programme Planning Manager will take day to day responsibility for aiding our Construction Director & Site Manager teams to monitor the LNT construction programme across the UK. The Programme Planning Manager will provide visibility at a UK wide level to external sub-contractors & internal disciplines. The role involves building clear coordinated roadmaps across all our activities and taking ownership of reporting against key performance indicators.

The role requires an in-depth understanding of the construction process, particularly within a ground works context, and an acute understanding of the critical path of our builds is a must. The candidate should be comfortable with solving problems relating to delay, not simply recording them, but advising on possible solutions to slippage. Using the programme to model outcome, and suggest several possible options of resolution. Being proactive and supportive is therefore a must. This is not simply a contractual record of the programme but a real world model, used by the LNT team to solve slippages, handle delays, and identify key risks. You will be comfortable with difficult conversations, using data and facts to back your point of view. The role is highly collaborative. You will be working with the commercial, finance and senior executive teams, and therefore confident in your analysis, and confident in your communication of it.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Managing Director, Commercial Director, Construction Directors and Site Managers.
• Take day to day responsibility for aiding our Construction Director & Site Manager teams to monitor the LNT construction programme across the UK
• Build clear coordinated roadmaps across all our activities and taking ownership of reporting against key performance indicators.
• Work with finance to report progress against the build.
• Build and maintain a headline dashboard communicating complex information accurately to the board.
• Excellent communication skills, calm under pressure, and firm in resolve
• Excellent construction knowledge of order of trade, construction techniques, and the key order of trade dictating logic
• Excellent MS Project knowledge
• A Collaborative and supportive mind set
• Able to hold your ground based on analysis of the facts
• Positive in your mindset, delay is a problem to solve not accept.
• Link all sites together in order to manage conflicts and ensure overall delivery.
• Build a new weekly reporting process to include key performance indicators to support the Managing Director with board updates and overall transparency helping ensure expectations are appropriately set and fulfilled.
• Provide programme of works and key dates to the Managing Director, Construction Directors, Site Managers & all other relevant internal departments
• Weekly communications with Construction Directors and Site Managers to validate progress either by visiting sites or using appropriate technology

Experience and Knowledge

• Microsoft project
• Program planning
• Knowledge of care home builds
• Strong analytical skills
• Effective communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Good business commercial acumen.
• Good time keeping skills
• Personable and approachable.
• Ability to read programmes organise materials/labour
• Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint
• Microsoft teams and one drive knowledge

Qualifications and skills

• Relevant degree in project planning
• Excellent communications skills at all levels
• Proven organisational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent time management

• Benefits:
• Company events
• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site gym
• On-site parking