Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer

Turner & Townsend; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management firm is seeking a Project Planner to support major construction projects. The role involves evaluating project performance, guiding contractors, and managing costs. Ideal candidates will have experience in construction planning, strong communication skills, and expertise in project governance. This position offers opportunities for involvement in high-profile projects across the UK and Europe.

Qualifications

• Experience in project planning within construction, ideally in Life Sciences or Data Centre sectors.
• Strong knowledge of cost management and control processes.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Identify and recommend actions for deviations against project baseline.
• Evaluate project time, cost, and quality targets.
• Act as main client contact for delivery and commercial issues.

Skills

Trend analysis

Governance control

Cost control

Change management

Procurement principles

Job description

We are currently recruiting for a Project Planner to undertake duties within our Project Controls team, supporting major construction projects across the Life Sciences / Pharma / Data Centre sectors. The Project Planner will work as part of our Project Controls team on high profile construction projects throughout the UK and Europe, providing performance reporting and analysis support. This may be part of a large team or as the key day to day contact point with the client. Key activities include:

• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommend remedial actions to drive best value for the client.
• Lead the evaluation of the projects 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 focussing on time, cost and quality targets.
• Control costs with your knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals, procurement principals.
• Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in a executive level dashboard.
• Understand change management principals, lead agreed change management process and workflow, 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/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
• Understand procurement principals, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule communicate the prioritisation 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 to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on 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.