Senior Planner

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

Job summary

A global professional services company in Scotland is seeking a Senior Planner to support projects across various infrastructure sectors, including energy and defence. This role requires involvement in developing performance baselines, cost monitoring, and reporting. Ideal candidates should hold a degree and have experience in project control tools like Oracle Primavera and MS Project. Applicants are encouraged from all backgrounds as the company values diversity.

Benefits

Healthy work-life balance

Flexible working environment

Qualifications

• Ideally degree educated with relevant industry experience.
• Experience in project controls environment required.
• Current Security Clearance preferred for defence projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures and performance baselines.
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods.
• Produce project control reports and provide performance analysis.

Skills

Performance reporting

Planning

Communication skills

Risk Management

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

Oracle Primavera

MS Project

Excel

PRISM

Job description

Company Overview

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 currently recruiting for a Senior Planner to undertake duties within our Scotland based, Infrastructure, Project Controls team, supporting projects across the energy, defence, rail, airports, highways, water and utilities sectors.

Senior Planner will work as part of our Project Controls team on a high-profile infrastructure project, 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.

Typical activities include working with cost and planning engineers to develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines, establishing progress and cost monitoring methods, producing project control reports and providing performance analysis and recommendations for our clients.

Previous experience working in a project controls environment within the infrastructure sector (Energy, Defence, Rail, Airports, Highways, Water / Utilities) 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.

Qualifications

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.

Our most pressing needs are currently within the defence sector. Current Security Clearance is ideal for candidates applying for our Defence Sector Projects.

Additional Information

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.

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.

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