Senior Construction Project Scheduler

Turner & Townsend; Denmark; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International environment

Challenging tasks

Development opportunities

Employer-funded pension plan

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Lead Scheduler for an on-site role on major construction projects, including data centre, pharmaceutical, and industrial scopes. You will lead the scheduling team, maintain the master plan, and ensure timely milestone achievement.

Strong client-facing reporting and KPI management are essential. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in project planning, expertise in Primavera P6 and EVM, and excellent English communication.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling for complex construction projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and earned value management (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 strong communication skills.
• Develops good working relationships with project teams.
• Tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions.
• 5 Days onsite required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the on-site scheduling team to review internal and contractor schedules and report on time impacts and risks.
• Maintain and monitor the master schedule and ensure alignment with milestones.
• Develop tender and contractual schedule requirements, including KPI alignment.
• Integrate contract packages into the master plan and coordinate progress reporting.
• Prepare weekly and monthly progress reports for management and clients.
• Verify project data with contractors and assess extension of time claims.
• Analyze critical paths and plan site logistics for key activities.
• Propose micro-schedules for critical elements of work.

Skills

Primavera P6

EVM

Master scheduling

Scheduling

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Team leadership

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.

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
• 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

Benefits

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

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.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.