Senior Planner - Mining / Energy

Turner & Townsend; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Growth opportunities

Dynamic work environment

Challenging projects

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Planner to join our collaborative project management team. You will ensure client objectives are met and provide planning guidance across programmes, with emphasis on accuracy and timely reporting.

The role requires 15 years post graduate experience, regional consultancy background, and proficiency in Primavera P6 and planning tools. Excellent communication and ability to coordinate with clients, partners, consultants and contractors are

Qualifications

• BSc degree in a relevant field is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years post-graduate experience is required.
• Regional experience with professional consultancy is necessary.
• Advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 or other planning software is required.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential.
• Professional working knowledge of project management and planning software/tools.
• Experience in Energy and Mining sector is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions and highlight issues in the programme.
• Provide planning advice to project team members and stakeholders and produce programme assurance reports.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against baselines.
• Deliver Period Programme Updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between Clients, Partners, consultants and contractors' programmes and ensure compliance with the Project Programme.
• Provide planning support to bidding teams to submit bid documentation on time.

Skills

Communication skills

Project management

Planning tools

Education

BSc Degree in relevant field

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Job description

Company Description

Turner & 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 people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s 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 world’s 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:www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

The Senior Planner will operate in a collaborative supporting team environment, ensuring that client objectives are met. We are looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated individual who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and who wants to make a difference to the Project Management division.

Key responsibilities

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions ensuring that issues within the programme are highlighted and understood.
• Give appropriate planning advice and direction to project team members & all relevant Stakeholders and produce programme assurance reports on our Client commissions.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against the baselines.
• Deliver Period Programme Updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between Clients and their Partners’, consultants’ and contractors’ programmes of works and compliance with the Project Programme. Reporting areas of ‘non-compliance’ for resolution.
• As appropriate and required, provide planning support to the bidding team to do all the activities necessary to submit the bidding documentations in time.

Qualifications

• BSc Degree in the relevant field is preferred.
• Minimum 15 years’ post graduate experience is required.
• Regional experience with professional consultancy is necessary.
• Advanced Knowledge and Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Professional working knowledge of project management and Planning software and tools.
• Industry experience within Energy and Miningsector.

Additional Information

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Exposure to a wide range of challenging projects.

Turner & Townsend is a global management consultancy and professional services firm focusing on the construction and asset management sectors. We work with the most prominent clients on the largest projects and asset bases across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. Our focus is on programme and project management, cost and commercial management and asset management strategy. We deliver projects on time and to budget, and to optimise the whole life value of assets on behalf of our clients. We work on projects such as HS2, The Shard, Battersea Power Station, Hinkley Point, Changi Airport, and clients such as Shell, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nissan and Citibank. The products we are building are cutting edge in our industry, allowing us to deliver these projects better than our competitors.

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