Senior Planner

2 weeks ago


North East England, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Group Full time

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, anddoing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 108 offices in 45 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for Senior Project Controls Engineers to undertake duties within our Yorkshire based, Infrastructure, Project Controls team,supporting projects across the energy, defence, rail, airports, highways, water and utilities sectors.

You will work as part of our Project Controls team on high-profile infrastructure projects, 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.

Typical activities include working with cost and planning engineers to develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines, establishing progress and cost monitoring methods, producing project control reports and providing performance analysis and recommendations for our clients.

Previous experience working in a project controls environment within the infrastructure sector (Energy, Defence, Rail, Airports, Highways, Water / Utilities) 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.

Qualifications

Required:


• Demonstrable knowledge of best practice planning principles; understanding of project and business objectives and drivers, translation of how a client specific life cycle or procurement strategy may impact the plan, execution planning, consultation with critical individuals and documents. Defining what does success look like?


• Technical competence in schedule construction; work breakdown structures, working calendars, task creation and duration estimation, schedule logic, critical path networks, resource and cost allocation, and the allocation of buffers.


• Working knowledge of planning systems such as Primavera, Project Online, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject.


• Assurance reviews – ensuring that all schedules are of a high quality, evidenced by using Primavera Schedlog, Acumen Fuse, DCMA 14 Point Checklist or simply a conscientious attitude towards the self-checking of work prior to submission.


• Effective schedule monitoring and control; baseline management, planning workshops, progress data collection, performance measurement, variance reporting, escalation of issues.


• Evaluation of project status; where should we be, where are we, what is the impact? This may take the form of chairing weekly meetings, progress reporting, composition of schedule narratives, participation in risk reviews, recovery and scenario planning and making recommendations.


• Ownership of driving a positive can-do culture on your commission for Schedule Management. Holding work package owners to account for their performance, designing fit for purpose outputs to suit varying stakeholder needs, the identification of key interfaces and dependencies, implementing meeting governance to ensure effective communication and coordination.

Additional Information

Our 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.

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, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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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 ofTurner & Townsend and arenot 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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