Senior Planner

3 weeks ago

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time

Company Description

Why Turner & Townsend?

At Turner & Townsend, our Controls & Performance team is dedicated to driving innovation and enhancing our clients' integrated controls capabilities. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals, providing a vast pool of experience to draw upon and enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities, and varied client base offer great opportunities to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

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Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our busy and expanding Natural Resources and New Energies team, undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Projects/Programmes. This role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate, and learn from our experienced and award-winning Planning & Scheduling community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Responsibilities

  • Tailor planning approaches to meet the client's needs in line with best practice.
  • Lead members of the planning team to develop and maintain plans on highly complex, high-risk projects or programmes.
  • Work with the project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information, and identification of variances from original plan.
  • Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
  • Break down the critical path and constraints to understand the effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-arounds.
  • Lead analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
  • Lead the development of status reports to keep management informed on project progress.
  • Train and coach clients and less experienced team members on planning processes and practices.
  • Challenge schedule information to ensure it is realistic, robust, and stands up to scrutiny.
  • Understand and be able to explain the EVM reported periodically.

The Candidate

Skills and Behaviours

  • Ability to interact with Management/Leadership members when delivering updates on planning progress within a complex project/programme environment.
  • Ability to act as a subject matter expert, delivering to planning processes, on complex projects/programmes along with all associated processes & reports.
  • Guide the team on appropriate use of systems and tools in relation to Planning & Scheduling.
  • Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
  • A UK driving license or the ability to travel to client sites across the region, as required, is essential.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Experience in using a standard scheduling tool (Primavera P6, MS Project etc) is essential (must be willing to attend Primavera P6 training as required).
  • Practical application of Earned Value Management (EVM) is desirable.
  • Having attended formal training in Tilos Time location software is desirable.
  • Demonstratable experience of Cemar Contract Management tool or equivalent is desirable.
  • Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable.

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.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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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