Planner/Scheduler - Data Centres Construction projects

Turner & Townsend; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Barcelona is seeking a Planner / Scheduler to lead advanced planning, scheduling, and progress measurement on major projects. You will apply scheduling techniques, risk analysis, and change management to support project objectives.

You will coordinate WBS and CBS development, prepare reports, and analyze deviations to propose corrective actions. Fluency in English and Spanish is required, with strong communication across project teams.

Qualifications

• Expertise in project controls and time/schedule management.
• Experience with project scheduling tools (Primavera P6 preferred).
• Ability to coordinate multiple schedule inputs into a master schedule.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Strong tenacity and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to build good working relationships with project team.

Responsibilities

• Implement Project Planning/Scheduling strategy reflecting Company roles and expectations.
• Coordinate development and implementation of WBS and CBS with project leads and contractor controls teams.
• Prepare staffing, engineering, construction progress and customized reports.
• Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
• Conduct schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project.
• Analyze deviations from baseline and propose corrective actions.
• Prepare integrated planning/scheduling contribution to Monthly Project Report and other reports.
• Analyze schedule impact of variances/change orders.
• Prepare resourcing plans for overall and project phases with peak leveling recommendations.

Skills

English

Spanish

Project controls

Time management

Communication

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.

Job Description

The Planner / Scheduler is responsible for advanced planning, scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation and analysis that may involve a major project or several smaller projects. A thorough understanding is required of policies, methods, and procedures that includes advanced Planning and Scheduling techniques, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, and support of project objectives.

• Implement Project Planning/Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in conjunction with Project Lead, Project Cost Engineer and Contractor project controls leads, and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans.
• Preparing Staffing, Engineering, Construction progress and customized reports.
• Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
• Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
• Analyze deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions.
• Prepare the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations.
• Analyze and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.
• Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak leveling.

Qualifications

• Expertise in project controls and time/schedule management is required preferably within Data Centres, Life Sciences / Pharma or associated sectors.
• Expert experience level using project scheduling tools (Primavera P6 preferred)
• Ability to coordinate/organise multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports is required.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English and Spanish
• The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions.
• Able to develop good working relationships with project team.

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both 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. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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