Overview
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. 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., and partner with CBRE to provide premier programme, project and cost management on a global scale.
We are currently recruiting for a Project Planner to undertake duties within our Project Controls team, supporting major construction projects across the Life Sciences / Pharma / Data Centre sectors. The Project Planner will work as part of our Project Controls team on high profile construction projects throughout the UK and Europe, 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:
Responsibilities
* Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators; recommend remedial actions to drive best value for the client.
* Lead the evaluation of the project’s time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable successful delivery.
* Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers responsible for reaching an agreed, market-tested cost baseline and ensuring the client is receiving value for money.
* Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they are progressing in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters.
* Act as the key point of contact to the client, overcoming delivery and commercial issues while preparing formal and ad hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targets.
* Control costs with knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles, and procurement principles.
* Create and/or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in an executive-level dashboard.
* Understand change management principles, lead agreed change management process and workflow, providing a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving change.
* Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
* Understand procurement principles, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule and communicate prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
* Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements.
* Actively participate in project team risk evaluations, incorporating defined risks into Monte Carlo analyses to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
* Stay informed on status of project changes and communicate these to the project team to allow for approvals in the change management process.
* Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate master schedule updates in line with defined processes and quality expectations.
Qualifications
* Previous experience in a project controls environment within the life sciences, pharmaceutical or data centre sectors; experience in at least one of Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls or PMO is required.
* Degree education is preferred; prior industry and sector experience is essential.
* Experience with Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, PRISM (Cost Management System) or similar tools is required.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills; rigorous in following documented processes and governance; ability to innovate to meet changing project challenges.
Additional Information
We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity. We promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, where applicable.
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