Lead Scheduler - Construction Projects

Turner & Townsend; Fredericia Kommune; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-funded pension plan

International development perspectives

Training opportunities

Exciting international environment

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Lead Scheduler to manage on-site planning for complex construction projects, with preference for Data Centre experience. You will lead the site scheduling team, coordinate with contractors, and ensure milestones and baselines are achieved.

Strong English, stakeholder management and communication are essential, with five days onsite per week. Join a global firm delivering major programmes and benefiting from international exposure, pension support, and ongoing

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling on complex construction projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and EVM.
• Experience coordinating multiple data sources into a master schedule and delivering status reports.
• Strong managerial and stakeholder management experience.
• Excellent command of English and communication skills.
• Five days onsite for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the on-site scheduling team to review internal and contractor schedules, validate time impacts and report risks.
• Maintain and monitor the master schedule and ensure milestones are met.
• Develop tender and contractual schedule requirements and KPIs for core contracts.
• Integrate contract packages into the master plan and review contractor schedules.
• Prepare regular progress reports for management and clients.
• Develop mitigation plans and assess extensions of time claims.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

Leadership

English fluency

Tools

Primavera P6

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

Turner & Townsend is looking for an experienced Lead Scheduler to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a track record of working on complex large scale construction projects as well as within one or more of the following: Data Centre, Pharmaceutical, BioTech, Oil & Gas, Industrial, Logistics, Manufacturing, Chemical or similarly complex asset type.

This role is a fully site based role due to the requirements of the Construction Project.

Job Objectives

• Lead the on site scheduling team to review internal schedules, review contractor's schedules, analyse, review, validate and report on any time impacts, scope change impacts or delay enabling early identification of risks
• Maintain and monitor master plan schedule
• Prepare and monitor tasks ensuring satisfactory realization of project requirements against the project schedule
• Lead the development of the tender requirements and contractual requirements, including contractual KPl's in relation to schedule accuracy, achievement of key milestones and timely submission of programmes for the Core Contracts
• Develop and manage the integrated work breakdown structure for the project
• 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
• Monitor progress on key delivery milestones and report on compliance in line with the agreed Baseline Programme
• Interact with contractor and verify the project data to update project schedule
• Develop mitigation plans
• 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

• 7+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling, with a focus on complex construction projects, and preferably previous Data Center experience.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and EVM
• Experience in coordinating multiple sources of schedule performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project status reports required for large scale projects
• Strong managerial and stakeholder management experience
• Excellent command of English
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Develops good working relationships with project team
• The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions
• 5 Days required onsite for this role

What We Offer

• Exciting work in an international environment.
• Independent work with challenging tasks.
• International development perspectives and training opportunities.
• Employer-funded pension plan.

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.