Construction Planner - Pharma, Life Science & Industrial

Turner & Townsend; Parma; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Parma, Italy, seeks a Junior Construction Planner to support advanced planning, scheduling and performance measurement on Pharma, Life Science & Industrial projects.

The role involves developing WBS/CBS with project teams, conducting schedule analyses, and producing regular progress reports. Primavera P6 experience is preferred, with strong communication across functional areas.

Qualifications

• Experience in advanced planning and scheduling for large projects.
• Knowledge of risk analysis and risk management processes.
• Strong reporting and progress measurement capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Implement scheduling strategy and procedures reflecting company and contractor roles.
• Develop WBS and CBS with project teams.
• Prepare staffing and progress reports.
• Perform probabilistic analysis on schedules.
• Conduct schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
• Analyze deviations from baseline and propose corrective actions.
• Prepare the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report.
• Highlight schedule impacts of changes and variances.
• Prepare resourcing plans for project phases.
• Coordinate inputs into a master schedule and deliver status reports.

Skills

Scheduling

Primavera P6

Project controls

Communication

Life sciences knowledge

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Construction Planner - Pharma, Life Science & Industrial

Full-time

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.

The Junior Planner / Scheduler is responsible for advanced planning, scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation and analysis that may involve a major project or several smaller projects. A thorough understanding is required of policies, methods, and procedures that includes advanced Planning and Scheduling techniques, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, and support of project objectives.

• Implement Project Planning/Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in conjunction with Project Lead, Project Cost Engineer and Contractor project controls leads, and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans.
• Preparing Staffing, Engineering, Construction progress and customized reports.
• Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
• Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
• Analyze deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions.
• 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.
• Expertise in project controlsand time/schedule management is required preferably within the Life Sciences / Pharma or associated sectors.
• Expert experience level using project scheduling tools (Primavera P6 preferred)
• Ability to coordinate/organise multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports is required.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions.
• Able to develop good working relationships with project team.

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both 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.

We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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