Project Planner jobs in United Kingdom

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.

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We are seeking to recruit Project Planners who would be working on a transformative, national, major health construction programme being rolled out nationwide.

The Project Planner will work on high profile hospital construction projects throughout the UK, 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. Key activities include:

• 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;
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of the schedules produced, maintaining independence as a planning engineer when advising on issues requiring judgment;
• Ability to balance multiple projects executed in multiple locations and by multiple contractors;
>Track and monitor portfolio schedule;
• Prepare the integrated planning/scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports/presentations;
• Analyze and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance/change order;
• Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak leveling.

• Previous experience working in a project planningenvironment within construction industryis required.
• Applicants will ideally be degree educated, with previous industry & sector experience being essential.
• Previous experience of Oracle Primavera P6 is essential.
• 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.

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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.

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

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