Senior Planning Engineer - Construction

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.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Planning Engineer to undertake duties on a number of high profile construction projects.

The Senior Planning Engineer will work as part of our project controls team on a high profile construction project, 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.

• Develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines in collaboration with cost and planning engineers.
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods.
• Produce project control reports and provide performance analysis and recommendations to clients.

Previous experience working in a project controls environment on a major project or programme within the Infrastructure sector (Ideally Airports, Rail, Utilities or Defence) would be beneficial.

Candidates should demonstrate a thorough understanding of:

• Earned value
• Progress updating
• Cost control
• Change control
• Baseline management
• Reporting
• P6 environment

Qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with some relevant work experience or previous proven experience in a project control environment.

Must be numerate and computer literate, highly competent in Microsoft Excel, planning software such as Primavera and utilizing reporting databases. Familiarity with financial/procurement systems such as Oracle and SAP and web-based project control tools is required.

Senior Project Controls Engineers should be proactive, self-starters with well‑developed communications and analytical skills.

Candidates should ideally hold or be able to obtain and maintain security clearance.

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.