Forensic Planner

**About Kirby Group Engineering**

**Role Purpose**
To work with internal Project Planning Teams to ensue project schedules, records and reports are setup and maintained in accordance with contractual requirements, internal best practices, enabling the preparation of prospective and retrospective delay and disruption analyses, providing effective delay and disruption claims advice, entitlement case development and preparation, based on detailed forensic examination and analysis of project information and data, conducting investigation of delay and disruption events to establish the cause and effect of delays and to resolve construction delay claims through negotiations (or legal proceedings).

**Key Functions**
- To play a crucial Planning governance and compliance role in relation to the following:

- Ensure contract compliance of baseline programme preparation (best practice, and project specific).
- Ensure contract compliance of reports prepared and issued.
- Ensure records prepared and kept enable efficient and effective entitlement claim preparation.
- Supporting preparation of prospective and retrospective delay analyses.
- Upstream / downstream forensic delay claim analysis.
- Preparation of interim, detailed & final claim particulars.
- Preparation or defence of delay / extension of time claims.
- Disruption (Loss of Productivity) claim preparation and analysis.
- Claim negotiation Support.

**Key Tasks, Activities, Responsibilities & Accountabilities**
- Support internal Planning teams in setting up contractually compliant baseline schedules.
- Providing internal governance and ensuring compliance with internal Planning procedures and client reporting requirements through regular internal compliance audits.
- Regular reviews to be arranged with internal Planning teams on major projects to perform a health check of the schedule integrity and project status.
- Regular reviews to be arranged with commercial Managers to ensure alignment and compliance with contractual requirements relating to early warnings and delay notifications.
- Supporting the Operations, Planning and Contracts team in Early Warning and Delay Notification narrative development.
- Liaison and support to internal Planning teams in the preparation of monthly time impact analysis (TIA) and critical path analysis (CPA) on major projects.
- Supporting internal Planning teams with client Planning team entitlement claim related communication.
- Supporting entitlement claim demonstration to client teams.
- Production of Delay and Disruption claim documentation.
- Production of monthly internal reports on the status of key projects.
- Internal flagging of Delay and Disruption related risk, and escalation of same.
- Working with the Planning and Contracts teams in developing Standard Operating Procedures and supporting the Planning team with implementation of same.
- Development of standardised Delay and Disruption reporting templates and enhancement of existing ones.
- Process improvement and automation of claim documentation development where possible.

**Competencies To Be Demonstrated**
- Results Orientation
- Commercial Acumen
- Customer Service/Relationship Builder
- Innovates and Improves Processes
- Attention to Detail
- Resilience and Positivism
- Team Worker/Builder