Project Planner – Project Controls Engineer - Transport & Utilities

TN United Kingdom; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

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Turner & Townsend

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Cardiff, United Kingdom

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Yes

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Posted:

24.04.2025

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08.06.2025

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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.

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

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good research and analytical skills.
• Experience managing stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

• Formal training in Primavera P6 & Tilos Time location software is essential.
• Demonstrable 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.

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.