Planner / Scheduler - MEP - Data Centre (Aus Wide)

Turner & Townsend; Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Australia is seeking experienced Planners / Schedulers to join our Data Centres team across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. You will support the delivery of large-scale, mission-critical data centre projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The role requires strong scheduling expertise, proficiency in Primavera P6 and EVM, excellent English and Italian, and the ability to coordinate multiple data sources and report progress to management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling for complex construction projects, ideally data centre experience.
• Excellent English and Italian language skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Develops good working relationships with project team.
• Tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor master plan schedule.
• Prepare and monitor tasks ensuring project requirements are met against schedule.
• Integrate contract packages into master plan schedule.
• Review contractor schedules and provide recommendations to client.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports for management and client.
• Develop project control procedures to monitor progress.
• Interact with contractor to verify project data and update schedule.
• Assess contractor’s EOT claims and prepare defense reports.
• Propose micro-management schedules for critical elements of work.
• Analyze critical path and constraints to determine impact of changes.
• Work on site logistic planning for the project.

Tools

Primavera P6

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 62 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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Planners / Schedulers to join our growing Data Centres team, with multiple opportunities available across our Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth offices. Working with leading developers, operators, contractors, and technology providers, you will support the delivery of complex, mission-critical data centre projects across Australia. These roles offer the opportunity to work on large‑scale, high‑value Data Centre and MEP developments in a fast‑paced and collaborative environment, contributing to the continued growth of our Data Centre sector and industry‑leading project controls capability.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor master plan schedule
• Prepare and monitor tasks ensuring satisfactory realization of project requirements against the project schedule
• Integrate various contract packages into master plan schedule
• Review contractor’s submitted schedule and make recommendations to client
• Prepare regular internal/external weekly and monthly progress report for management and client
• Develop a project control procedure to monitor the progress of project
• Interact with contractor and verify the project data to update project schedule
• Assess any contractor’s extension of time claim and prepare defense claim report
• Put forward recommendation report for any contractor’s EOT claim
• Analyze critical path and constraints to determine the effect of changes to project schedule
• Work out site logistic planning for project
• Prepare and propose ‘micro‑management’ schedules for critical elements of work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling, with a focus on complex construction projects, ideally Data Center experience
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and EVMExperience in coordinating multiple sources of schedule performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project status reports required for large scale projects
• Excellent English and Italian language skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Develops good working relationships with project team
• The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions

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.