Planning Engineer

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we are passionate about making a difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. For over 75 years we have helped clients deliver on their objectives, achieving significant growth and now facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision.

We need people who are passionate about delivering great outcomes to clients and contributing to our future vision through an entrepreneurial culture that allows employees at all levels to influence the business and own their careers.

We are currently recruiting for a Project Planner to undertake duties within our Project Controls team. 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 serve as the key day‑to‑day contact point with the client.

• 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 receives value for money.
• Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they progress 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, 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 processes and workflows, and provide 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 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 to output quantitative impacts to the overall project cost and schedule.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on status of project changes, incorporate and communicate these to the project team 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 the schedules adhere to the defined processes and quality expectations.

• Experience in at least one of the following:
  Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls, and/or PMO.
• Applicant will be degree‑educated, with previous industry and sector experience considered essential.
• Previous experience with the following tools (or one of them) is also required:
  Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, PRISM (Cost Management System).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; rigor in following documented processes and governance, and the ability to innovate creatively in a changing project environment.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to influence change. We support work‑life balance through a healthy, productive and flexible working environment. Turner & Townsend is an equal‑opportunity employer. We celebrate…