Senior Project Planner, Construction Projects (Talent Pool)

Turner & Townsend; Bogotá ciudad; On-site; COP 240,000,000 - 360,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Planner to lead the master schedule using Oracle Primavera P6 for a major project in Colombia. The role requires 10+ years of project controls experience and fluency in English and Spanish.

You will coordinate with engineering, procurement and construction teams, manage the schedule, and report progress to stakeholders. Ideal candidates will be proficient in P6, MS Office, and earned value techniques, with strong communication and stakeholder

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project controls, planning, and scheduling.
• Development of detailed project plans from the Master Schedule using P6 software.
• Monitor schedule trends and analyze impacts with the project team.
• Prepare status reports and ensure standards/formats are maintained.
• Adjust schedules as needed and report discrepancies against baseline.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and maintenance of the project master schedule using Primavera P6.
• Collaborate with stakeholders for updates across engineering, procurement and construction.
• Establish and manage Basis of Schedule and the master schedule.
• Apply resource loading to optimize staffing plans.
• Calculate Earned Value KPIs and progress with S-curves.
• Coordinate progress tracking with the GC and stakeholders for milestones.
• Facilitate IPS scheduling sessions with leads, vendors and client inputs.
• Identify critical path and monitor/report schedule throughout the project.
• Incorporate scope changes and trends into the schedule.
• Provide weekly/bi-weekly/monthly plan vs actual and mitigation inputs.

Skills

Project controls

Scheduling

Primavera P6

Stakeholder management

MS Excel

Education

Engineering degree (Civil/Architectural/Electrical/Production)

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Office

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.

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 Project Planner role will involve leading the development and maintenance of the project master schedule in ORACLE Primavera P6 Software.

The Candidate’s role will primarily include the bellow activities:

• Collaboration with key stakeholders for accurate and timely updates on the projects engineering, procurement and construction phases, will be key to the project’s success.
• Prepare and maintain the project Basis of Schedule
• Establish and manage the project master schedule for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning phases
• Apply resource loading for establishing optimal crew/staffing plans.
• Calculate and manage Earned Value KPIS and progress tracking with S curves.
• Learn and implement the scheduling specifications and processes of the owner.
• Coordinate project progress tracking with the GC and relevant stakeholders for all project milestones.
• Must be an expert in ORACLE Primavera P6.
• Ensure the project schedule activities are coded by the project work breakdown structure and interface to the controls systems for progress / forecast updates and analysis.
• Facilitate IPS’s (Interactive Planning Sessions) for the project with discipline leads, vendors and client inputs.
• Establish the project critical path and continue to analyse, monitor and report throughout the project.
• Incorporate any required scope changes and trends into project schedule.
• Provide an Analysis of impacts / deviations and propose mitigation measures.
• Provide client an internal weekly, bi-weekly/monthly reporting inputs of plan vs actual and any forecast mitigation strategies.
• Comply with relevant Owner policies and procedures and work within legal and regulatory frameworks.

Qualifications

Experience:

• 10+ years experience in project controls, planning, and scheduling.
• Development of detailed project plans from the Master Schedule using P6 software. Also, Manage key inputs including task lists, logic, milestones, resources, from design phases through to construction & project close-out.
• Monitor trends and analyse schedule impacts with the project team.
• Prepare status reports.
• Ensure standards, formats and timeframes are maintained.
• Adjust the schedule if and when required and report all discrepancies against the baseline.

Education/Qualifications/Core abilities

• Degrees and/or professional licenses in Architectural/Civil/Electrical/Production Engineering.
• Strong Verbal and Written Communication Skills in Spanish and English.
• Strong Project planning, scheduling, and project execution experience is essential.
• Experience with Large Scale or Mission Critical projects in a consulting engineering capacity.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks and prioritize.
• Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Scheduler experience.
• Experienced and competent with Primavera (P6) products.
• Experienced and competent with Microsoft Office products.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to work with diverse groups, from top level executive to field foreman.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal in English and Spanish.
• Shows strong problem-solving skills and can work independently as well as strong team player.
• The ideal candidate is someone analytic, organized, confident in Stakeholder and Client management.

Additional Information

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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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