Senior Planning Engineer Full-Time

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Project Planner to undertake duties within our Project Controls team.

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 principals, procurement principals.
• Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive‑level dashboard.
• Understand change management principals, lead agreed change‑management process and workflow, providing a platform for adding, tracking, monitoring, and 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 principals, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule, 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 to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on the status of project changes, incorporating and 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 that the schedules adhere to the defined process and quality expectations.

Qualifications

• Experience in at least one of the following: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls and/or PMO.
• Applicants will ideally be degree‑educated; previous industry and sector experience is essential.
• Previous experience of Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel or PRISM (Cost Management System) is required.
• Applicants must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, be rigorous in following documented processes and governance, and be able to demonstrate the ability to innovate in creative ways to meet the challenges of the changing project environment.

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

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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