Senior Project Planner - P6 Master Schedule Expert

Turner & Townsend; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Planner to lead end-to-end project scheduling for high-value construction programs. The role requires strong hands-on use of Primavera P6 and Tableau, with regular site travel to align schedules with on-site activities and stakeholders.

You will work closely with clients, contractors, and internal teams to ensure schedule integrity, baselining, and timely progress reporting across multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to determine corrective actions or recommendations from facts and figures.
• Advanced skills in MS Office and Primavera P6.
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to providing excellent service.
• Reliable with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
• Work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to plan, develop and execute construction schedules.
• Regular travel to construction site is expected.
• Effectively work with Stakeholders, Clients, Contractors and Sub Contractors on a daily basis.
• Develop and maintain a detailed construction program schedule using Primavera P6 and Tableau for multi-project environments.
• 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.
• Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
• Actively work with project managers, construction firms and subcontractor firms as necessary to maintain schedule integrity.
• Provide interface and quality assurance to Project functional groups and contractors regarding the tracking and reporting of schedule performance.
• Ability to coordinate & organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
• Prepare and update progress reports as required by the client, including the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the monthly project report and specific reports / presentations.
• Produce high level and 1, 3, 6 month look ahead from P6 for reporting.
• Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
• Actively monitor and communicate any possible project issues that could delay the schedule.
• Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
• Analyse deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions, and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.

Skills

Time management

Autonomous working

Team collaboration

Tools

Primavera P6

Tableau

MS Office

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Planner to lead end-to-end project scheduling for high-value construction programs. The role requires strong hands-on use of Primavera P6 and Tableau, with regular site travel to align schedules with on-site activities and stakeholders.

You will work closely with clients, contractors, and internal teams to ensure schedule integrity, baselining, and timely progress reporting across multiple projects.