Planner

Turner & Townsend; Riyadh; Hybrid; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is seeking a Planner who will report to the Project Controls Director and work with client representatives on project level. Based in Riyadh, the role requires coordinating between clients, consultants, and contractors to ensure programme alignment and timely updates.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years’ post graduate experience in professional consultancy, with advanced knowledge of Primavera P6 and strong written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• BSc Degree in the relevant field is preferred.
• Minimum 5 - 10 years’ post graduate experience is required.
• Regional experience with professional consultancy is necessary.
• Advanced Knowledge and Proficiency with Primavera (P6) and/or other planning software.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions ensuring that issues within the programme are highlighted and understood.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against the baselines.
• Deliver Period Programme Updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between Clients and their Partners’, consultants’ and contractors’ programmes of works and compliance with the Project Programme.

Skills

Primavera P6

Planning software

Progress reporting

Stakeholder coordination

Verbal communication

Written communication

Education

BSc Degree in relevant field

Tools

Primavera (P6)

Project controls software

Job description

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

The Planner will report to the Turner & Townsend Project Controls Director internally and the client representative at a project level. The incumbent will be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The Planner will operate in a collaborative supporting team environment, ensuring that client objectives are met.

We are looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated individual who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and who wants to make a difference to the Project Management division.

Key responsibilities

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions ensuring that issues within the programme are highlighted and understood.
• Give appropriate planning advice and direction to project team members & all relevant Stakeholders and produce programme assurance reports on our Client commissions.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against the baselines.
• Deliver Period Programme Updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between Clients and their Partners’, consultants’ and contractors’ programmes of works and compliance with the Project Programme. Reporting areas of ‘non-compliance’ for resolution.
• As appropriate and required, provide planning support to the bidding team to do all the activities necessary to submit the bidding documentations in time.

Qualifications

• BSc Degree in the relevant field is preferred;
• Minimum 5 - 10 years’ post graduate experience is required;
• Regional experience with professional consultancy is necessary;
• Advanced Knowledge and Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Professional working knowledge of project management and Planning software and tools.

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is a global management consultancy and professional services firm focusing on the construction and asset management sectors. We work with the most prominent clients on the largest projects and asset bases across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. Our focus is on programme and project management, cost and commercial management and asset management strategy.
We deliver projects on time and to budget, and to optimise the whole life value of assets on behalf of our clients. We work on projects such as HS2, The Shard, Battersea Power Station, Hinkley Point, Changi Airport, and clients such as Shell, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nissan and Citibank.
The products we are building are cutting edge in our industry, allowing us to deliver these projects better than our competitors.

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