Project Planner - Project Controls Engineer - Transport & Utilities

ZipRecruiter; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Controls Engineer to join their dynamic Transport and Utilities division. This role focuses on project planning and requires expertise in Primavera P6 and Tilos Time Location software. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules, ensuring adherence to contract processes, and providing insightful status reports to management. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and analytical skills, along with practical experience in project management. Join a collaborative team that values work-life balance and offers opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience managing stakeholders and effective communication skills.
• Practical experience in project management and planning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Creation and maintenance of project schedules for medium complexity projects.
• Monitoring project KPIs and assisting with change management processes.

Skills

Verbal Communication

Written Communication

Research Skills

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Management

Education

Formal Training in Primavera P6

Experience in Project Management

Experience in Transportation and Utilities

Tools

Primavera P6

Tilos Time Location Software

Job description

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 looking for a person to join our expanding Transport and Utilities business as a Project Controls Engineer specializing in Project Planning. Day-to-day responsibilities may include:

• Creation and maintenance of project schedules that assist and align with project requirements on a medium complexity, medium risk project or programme.
• Adherence to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management of schedule data and submissions.
• Assisting project team to develop status reports to keep management informed on project progress.
• Interacting with the project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
• Interacting with and assisting the project managers to schedule work and coordinate assignments.
• Evaluation of project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
• Breakdown of the critical path and constraints to understand the effect of changes to schedule and recommend a work-around.
• Assisting project managers to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures.
• Conducting analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
• Undertaking of project reviews.
• Monitoring and consolidating of overall project plans.
• Monitoring the project managers reporting system summarising the progress status of all projects.
• Monitor and advise on status of project KPIs.
• Understand and be able to explain the EVM reported periodically.

Qualifications

Skills and behaviours

• Have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Have good research and analytical skills.
• Have experience managing stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

• Having attended formal training in Primavera P6 & Tilos Time location software is essential.
• Demonstratable practical experience in Project Management and Planning techniques is essential.
• Experience of working in the transportation and utilities sectors is desirable.
• An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Risk, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Planning is desirable.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable.
• The ability to travel to client sites across the Southwest as required is essential.

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 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/

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

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot 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.

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

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot 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.