Planning Engineer (Life Sciences/Pharma/Data Centres)

Turner & Townsend Plc.; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services company seeks an experienced Project Controls Professional to manage project costs and schedules in life sciences or data centres. The role involves establishing processes, monitoring performance, and ensuring client value. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in project controls and strong analytical skills. Join a collaborative team dedicated to delivering impactful projects while promoting a flexible and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to determine corrective actions based on data.
• Strong time management skills and ability to meet project deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Establish processes and tools for cost and schedule management.
• Lead evaluation of project time, cost, and quality targets.
• Coordinate planning sessions and lead change management processes.

Skills

Project Controls Coordination

Time Management

Analytical Skills

Communication

Tools

MS Office

Primavera P6

Job description

Company 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 are leaders in professional services to the Data Centres, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors globally.

Job Objectives

As an experienced Project Controls Professional in life sciences or data centres, you will establish the required processes, templates, and tools, and agree the baseline for cost and schedule, whilst monitoring performance against it and incorporating the impacts of risk, opportunities, and change in a controlled manner. In order to do this you will:

• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions in order to drive best value for the client.
• Lead the evaluation of the project‘s time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable the successful delivery of the project.
• Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market tested cost baseline and ensuring the client is receiving value for money.
• Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they are progressing in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters.
• Act as the key point of contact to the client overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad hoc reports focusing on time, cost, and quality targets.
• Control costs with your knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles, procurement principles.
• Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive-level dashboard.
• Understand change management principles, lead the agreed change management process, and work flow, providing a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving change.
• Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/program schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
• Understand procurement principles, collate lead times from vendors and clients into the master schedule, and communicate the prioritization of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
• Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements.
• Actively participate in project team risk evaluations, incorporating the defined risks into Monte Carlo simulations to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on the status of project changes, incorporating and communicating these to the project team to allow for approvals in the change management process.
• Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule, ensuring that the schedules adhere to the defined process and quality expectations.

Qualifications

Skills Required

• Proven experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle including program, risk, and reporting with, specialist life sciences or data centre sector experience.
• Demonstrated experience in the ability to determine corrective actions or recommendations based on facts and figures and critically evaluating information and data from various sources.
• Advanced skills in MS Office and Primavera P6.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to providing excellent service.
• Reliable with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Strong time management skills, quick thinking, and ability to meet project deadlines as necessary.
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and the ability to work independently.

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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