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Overview
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries, delivering projects across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources. 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 work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering worldwide.
Job Description
We are currently recruiting for a Project Planner to support major construction projects within the Life Sciences / Pharma / Data Centre sectors. The Project Planner will work as part of our Project Controls team, providing performance reporting and analysis support on high‑profile construction projects throughout the UK and Europe.
Responsibilities
* Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommending 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 to reach an agreed, market‑tested cost baseline and ensure the client receives value for money.
* Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring schedule progress and cash‑flow parameters are met.
* Act as the key point of contact to the client, overcoming delivery and commercial issues while preparing formal and ad‑hoc reports focused on time, cost and quality targets.
* Control costs using 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 and 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 the client into the master schedule and communicate the 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 analysis to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
* Work closely with the project team to stay informed on project‑change status, incorporating and communicating changes to allow approvals in the change‑management process.
* Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule, ensuring adherence to the defined process and quality expectations.
Qualifications
* Previous experience in a project controls environment within the life sciences, pharmaceutical or data centre sectors is required, with experience in Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls or PMO.
* Applicants should ideally hold a degree and have relevant industry and sector experience.
* Experience with tools such as Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel and PRISM (Cost Management System) is required.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, rigor in following documented processes and governance, and the ability to innovate in creative ways to meet project challenges are essential.
Additional Information
We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We support a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance. SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process; no recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, a formal written agreement must be in place and the agency must be invited by the Recruitment Team to submit candidates for review.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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.
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