Join to apply for the Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer role at Turner & Townsend Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are currently recruiting for a Project Planner to undertake duties within our Project Controls team, supporting major construction projects across the Life Sciences / Pharma / Data Centre sectors. The Project Planner will work as part of our Project Controls team on high profile construction projects throughout the UK and Europe, providing performance reporting and analysis support. This may be part of a large team or as the key day to day contact point with the client. Key activities include:

Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions to drive best value for the client. Lead the evaluation of the project’s time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable the successful delivery of the project. Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market tested cost baseline and ensuring the client is receiving value for money. Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they are progressing in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters. Act as the key point of contact to the client, overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targets. Control costs with knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles, procurement principles. Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive level dashboard. Understand change management principles, lead the agreed change management process and workflow, providing a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving change. Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path. Understand procurement principles, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule and communicate the prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates. Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements. Actively participate in project team risk evaluations, incorporating the defined risks into Monte Carlo analysis to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule. Work with the project team to stay informed on status of project changes, communicating these to the project team to allow for approvals in the change management process. Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule, ensuring schedules adhere to defined process and quality expectations.

Qualifications

Previous experience working in a project controls environment within the life sciences, pharmaceutical or data centre sectors is required, as is experience in at least one of the following: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls and/or PMO. Ideally degree educated, with previous industry & sector experience essential. Experience with tools such as Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, PRISM (Cost Management System) or equivalent. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, rigorous in following documented processes and governance, and able to demonstrate the ability to innovate to meet changing project challenges.

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. SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role where applicable. Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr