Senior Planner - Mining Energy

Turner & Townsend; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Professional growth opportunities

Collaborative and dynamic team

Exposure to challenging projects

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior Planner with extensive regional consultancy experience. You will support multi-disciplinary project teams, provide expert planning guidance, and ensure timely progress reporting and programme assurance across complex projects in energy and mining sectors.

The role emphasizes collaboration with clients, partners, consultants, and contractors, with a focus on delivering value, improving outcomes, and maintaining strict project

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 of Primavera (P6) or other planning/resourcing software.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Professional working knowledge of project management and planning tools.
• Experience in Energy and Mining sectors is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions and highlight issues in the programme.
• Provide planning advice and direction to project team members and stakeholders; 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.
• Assist bidding teams with activities to submit bidding documentations on time.

Skills

Communication skills

Self-motivated

Project management

Education

BSc Degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Planning software

Job description

Job 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.

Senior Planner

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 Mining sector.

Additional Information

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.

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.

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