Senior Planner/scheduler

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services organisation that provides consultancy, delivery, operations and programme management services to Life Sciences, Pharma, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors globally who are building or renewing their facilities.

To deliver consistently excellent advice to our clients, we mobilise expert, flexible and entrepreneurial people who are at the very top of their profession and are inspired to deliver to make the difference. We provide world-class learning and development and knowledge management to everyone across the business, at every stage of their career.

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the 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. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 112 offices worldwide.

We have multiple IS&T opportunities in France and are hiring Planners or Schedulers with proven experience of delivery in these sectors.

**Job Description**:
As a Planner/Scheduler you will be responsible for advanced planning, scheduling, progress measurement, change management implementation and analysis that may involve a major project or several smaller projects. A thorough understanding is required of policies, methods, and procedures that includes advanced Planning and Scheduling techniques, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, and support of project objectives. In your role you will:

- Implement project planning/scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
- Coordinate the development and implementation of project works
- Preparing Staffing, Engineering, Construction progress and customised reports.
- Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
- Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
- Analyse deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions.
- Prepare the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations.
- Analyse and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.
- Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak leveling.
- Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems.
- Prepare and propose ‘micro-management’ schedules for critical elements of work.

**Please submit your CV in English**

**Skills Required**:

- Expertise in project controls and time/schedule management is required preferably within the Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Industrial or other related complex asset types.
- Expert experience level using project scheduling tools (Primavera P6 preferred)
- Ability to coordinate/organise multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports is required.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions.
- Able to develop good working relationships with project team.
- Business level English and French language skills, both written and verbal are essential.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree level in relevant discipline is preferred

Additional Information
- Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change._
- We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance._

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