Planning and Scheduling Manager

1 week ago

Bridgwater, Somerset, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time

About Turner & Townsend

We are a leading professional services company that helps clients achieve their goals by providing expert advice and support across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Planner to join our team. As a Planner, you will play a critical role in providing services to our clients, including leading the planning discipline team on high complexity, high risk projects or programs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning discipline team on high complexity, high risk projects or programs
  • Create and maintain project schedules that assist and align with project requirements
  • Adhere to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management of schedule data and submissions
  • Assist project team to develop status reports to keep management informed on project progress
  • Oversight of day-to-day management, staffing and the implementation of Integrated Project Controls standards and processes
  • Development of project schedules in conjunction with the project manager and project team
  • Reduce uncertainty, know objectives and improve efficiency
  • Interact with project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan
  • Interact with and assist project managers to schedule work and coordinate assignments
  • Evaluation of project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas
  • Breakdown of the critical path and constraints to understand the effect of changes to schedule and recommend a work-around
  • Assist project managers to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures
  • Conduct analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
  • Undertake project reviews
  • Monitor and consolidate overall project plans
  • Monitor the project managers reporting system summarising the progress status of all projects
  • Monitor and advise on status of project KPIs

Requirements

  • Professional Project Controls experience specialising in Planning & Scheduling in multiple sectors across the whole Project lifecycle
  • Strong knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software
  • Ability to coordinate and work with other teams and have multi-disciplinary knowledge
  • Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence, manage, motivate, coach and develop a team
  • Ability to make risk-based decisions where the parameters are unclear and judgement is needed
  • Project team leadership with the ability to mobilise, inspire and lead by example
  • Strong stakeholder management experience
  • Flexibility to work within different sectors and with diverse clients
  • Ability to navigate through conflict situations and defuse tension

About Us

We are a company that values diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating an environment where everyone can succeed. We offer 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, and we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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