Senior Planner

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources to deliver outcomes that improve people's lives. By transforming challenges into opportunities and complexity into success, we deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions. As a majority-owned subsidiary of CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, we leverage our partnership to provide clients with premier programme, project, and cost management services globally.

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Job Description

As a Senior Planner, you will be responsible for optimising the use of available resources to complete work plan scopes within budget and time constraints. Key responsibilities include:

• Resource Optimisation: Work in an integrated planning, cost, and risk environment.
• Scheduling Methodology: Follow established planning and scheduling methodology.
• Schedule Risk Analysis: Carry out Schedule Risk Analysis throughout the project life cycle.
• Project Milestones: Develop Project Milestone and Progress tracking baselines.
• Contractor Management: Ensure contractor compliance and manage performance.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree or relevant equivalent.
• Experience: Extensive experience in a project planning role, ideally consultancy.
• Planning & Scheduling: Extensive experience in planning & scheduling of major capital projects, ideally in the Infrastructure sector (Water, Rail, Roads, Power).
• Software Proficiency: Experienced user of Primavera Project Planner 6.
• Risk & Data Analysis: Experience with risk identification and analysis and data analysis.
• Project Management: Demonstrated knowledge of project management principles (PMP certification is desirable).

The ideal candidate will be autonomous, proactive in problem-solving, and able to quickly learn the project delivery particulars of the client with minimal supervision. They should have a positive attitude, be able to contribute to the wider team beyond their assigned projects, and drive and coordinate solutions as part of a broader controls team. The role will report directly to the client and maintain relationships with the wider Turner & Townsend team, reporting back to the Turner & Townsend manager and leadership team.

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.