Planning Engineer / Senior Planning Engineer

Turner & Townsend; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Project Planner to join their dynamic Project Controls team. This role involves supporting major construction projects in the Life Sciences and Data Centre sectors across the UK and Europe. As a key point of contact, you will analyze performance, manage costs, and ensure adherence to project timelines. You will collaborate closely with clients and vendors, guiding project delivery while overcoming challenges. This position offers a fantastic opportunity to work with leading corporations and make a significant impact on high-profile projects. If you're passionate about driving successful outcomes and thrive in a collaborative environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Health and wellness programs

Opportunities for professional development

Inclusive work culture

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls within life sciences or data centre sectors required.
• Degree educated candidates preferred with relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline.
• Lead planning sessions and workshops to compile the master schedule.

Skills

Project Controls Management

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Change Management

Risk Management

Planning

Excellent Communication Skills

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

Oracle Primavera

MS Project

Excel

PRISM (Cost Management System)

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Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Working with the world's leading corporations, we enable the successful delivery of their world class Hi-Tech & Manufacturing (HT&M) mission critical facilities. Turner & Townsend are leaders in professional services to the Data Centre's, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors globally. We have multiple Project/Programme Control opportunities and are hiring Controls Professionals with proven experience of delivery in these sectors.

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.

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a project controls environment within the life sciences, pharmaceutical or data centre sectors is required, as is experience in at least one of the following: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls and or PMO.
• Applicants will ideally be degree educated, with previous industry & sector experience being essential.
• Previous experience of the following tools (or one of) is also required: Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, PRISM (Cost Management System)
• Applicants will also require excellent written and verbal communication skills, be rigorous in following documented processes and governance and be able to demonstrate the ability to innovate in creative ways to meet the challenges of the changing project environment.

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/