Project Planner – Hospital Construction

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

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm is seeking a Project Planner for a major health construction programme across the UK. This role involves providing performance reporting and analysis support on high-profile hospital projects. Candidates should have prior experience in project planning within construction, a relevant degree, and proficiency in Oracle Primavera P6. The position offers a dynamic work environment that emphasizes work-life balance and diversity.

Benefits

Healthy work-life balance

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a project planning environment within the construction industry is required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Ability to innovate in creative ways to meet project challenges.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy and completeness of schedules produced.
• Track and monitor the portfolio schedule.
• Prepare resourcing plans for project phases.

Skills

Project planning

Oracle Primavera P6

Communication skills

Process adherence

Education

Degree in a relevant field

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

We are seeking to recruit Project Planners who would be working on a transformative, national, major health construction programme being rolled out nationwide.

The Project Planner will work on high profile hospital construction projects throughout the UK, 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:

• Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems;
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced, maintaining independence as a planning engineer when advising on issues requiring judgment;
• Ability to balance multiple projects executed in multiple locations and by multiple contractors;
>Track and monitor portfolio schedule;
• 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

• Previous experience working in a project planningenvironment within construction industryis required.
• Applicants will ideally be degree educated, with previous industry & sector experience being essential.
• Previous experience of Oracle Primavera P6 is essential.
• 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.

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

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.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.