Senior Planning Engineer (Defence) - Construction

Turner & Townsend; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer to join their project controls team. In this pivotal role, you will support high-profile Defence projects, ensuring effective performance reporting and analysis. Your expertise in project controls will help develop robust performance baselines and monitor progress and costs. This role offers a chance to work with leading global clients, contributing to ambitious technical projects that make a real difference. If you are a proactive self-starter with strong analytical skills and a passion for project management, this is the opportunity for you to thrive in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in project controls on major projects in Infrastructure sectors.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and planning software like Primavera.

Responsibilities

• Develop work breakdown structures and performance baselines.
• Produce project control reports and provide performance analysis.

Skills

Earned Value Management

Cost Control

Change Control

Baseline Management

Performance Analysis

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Primavera P6

Oracle

SAP

Job description

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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 Senior Planning Engineer to undertake duties on a number of high profile Defence projects.

Main Purpose Of Role
The Senior Planning Engineer will work as part of our project controls team on a high profile construction 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.

Duties
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.

Experience
Previous experience working in a project controls environment on a major project or programme within the Infrastructure sector (Ideally Airports, Rail, Utilities or Defence) would be beneficial, however, candidates will be expected to demonstrate a thorough understanding/experience of the following:

Earned value, progress updating, cost control, change control, baseline management, reporting, P6 environment.

Qualifications
You will be expected to be numerate and computer literate, highly competent in the use of Microsoft Excel, planning software such as Primavera and utilizing reporting databases. You will also be familiar with financial/procurement systems such as Oracle and SAP and web-based project control tools.

Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some relevant work experience or previous proven experience in a project control environment.

Senior Project Controls Engineers should be proactive, self-starters with well-developed communications and analytical skills.

Security Clearance
Owing to the specialist and sensitive nature of the work that we carry out for a number of our clients, candidates will ideally hold security clearance or be able to obtain & maintain security clearance.

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

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management
• Industries: Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services

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