Job Description

Company DescriptionTurner & 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 peoplexe2x80x99s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the worldxe2x80x99s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the worldxe2x80x99s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.Please visit our website:We are looking for a talented Planner to work on projects in our Real Estate Business Unit. In this role you will apply your advanced planning experience in scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation and analysis. You will implement the project planning/scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both company and contractor roles, responsibilities, and expectations.In the role of Planner, you will coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in conjunction with the Project Lead, Project Cost Engineer and Contractor Project Controls Leads, and in conjunction with the Project Execution Plans. You will support the Project Team in the implementation of an integrated enterprise based, cross functional and EPC master schedule program, and analyze deviations from the baseline in the master schedule and highlight bottlenecks/delays and propose corrective actions.Other responsibilities include:

• Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems;
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced, maintaining independence as a planning engineer when advising on issues requiring judgment;
• Ability to balance multiple projects executed in multiple locations and by multiple contractors;
• Track and monitor portfolio schedule;
• Prepare the integrated planning/scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports/presentations;
• Analyse and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance/change order;
• Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak levelling.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years planning/scheduling experience;
• Strong understanding in planning/scheduling policies, methods, and procedures that include advanced planning and scheduling techniques, risk analysis and risk management;
• Advanced level of experience using project scheduling tools, such as MS Project, Primavera P3, P5 and P6, SAP, Excel, PowerPoint and Pertmaster;
• Ability to coordinate/organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports is required;
• Knowledge and experience of all the main design or project management concepts, tools and techniques;
• Experience of working with Contractors in a project management, or scheduler/planner capacity;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions;
• Membership of a recognised professional body desirable;
• Good knowledge and experience gained within construction and Real Estate sectors;

Additional InformationOur inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. We also encourage our staff to strive to xe2x80x98make a differencexe2x80x99 and become involved in various working committees and forums (for example, Inclusion Working Group, Social & Wellness, Learning & Development, Corporate Social Responsibilities and Net Zero Vision).At Turner & Townsend we offer a competitive remuneration package and company benefits.Turner & Townsend value greatly and have a focus on Corporate Responsibilities (CR), this includes a dayxe2x80x99s leave entitlement to support a local charity or community activity along with the opportunity to participate in several office events that held throughout the year.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 people from all sectors of the community.#LI-BL1Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: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.

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