Project Planner

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize 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 110 offices worldwide.

The **project planner** is responsible for the day-to-day management and reporting in terms of cost and risk for the project execution for the consolidation at the program level.

This is done in a systematic and controlled manner, enabling the project managers and program organization to be able to sail an ever better strategic course with ever better data and trends.

**Job Description**:

- Managing the implementation and maintenance of project processes for scheduling.
- Presenting schedule reports to the project management team and relevant stakeholders.
- Collaborating with other disciplines to drive towards project goals in keeping with the client's principles of trust, transparency and teamwork.
- Maintain an awareness of schedule interfaces with other projects.
- Manage the development, change and improvement of the client Master Schedule providing planning expertise to the project and programme team.
- Identify, evaluate and provide solutions to issues arising.
- Manage the change process and analyze schedule impact.
- Incorporate relevant financial/quantity data in the programme to produce a project cost/time distribution profile and communicate results to relevant parties.
- Display and evaluate the project critical path and advise the project team of the results and any appropriate corrective action.
- Produce and maintain project baselines and execute the change control process as needed.
- Produce project reports or data directly from planning software (Primavera OPC) arranging data to ensure alignment with the financial software.
- Understanding and reporting on a project using earned value analysis techniques and interpret/communicate the results and any corrective action to the project team.

**Qualifications**:

- +5 years experience as equivalent planning role in Life Sciences/O&G or Chemical industry.
- Proficient in the use of MS Office suite including MS Project and Primavera OPC or P6 version.
- Experience in Oracle/Aconex tools is preferred.
- Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
- Team player with the ability to work autonomously.
- Excellent command of written and spoken French & English with excellent reporting skills.

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. We also encourage our staff to strive to ‘make a difference’ and become involved in various working committees and forums (for example, Inclusion Working Group, Social & Wellness, Learning & Development, Corporate Social Responsibilities and Net Zero Vision).

At Turner & Townsend we offer a competitive remuneration package and company benefits.

Turner & Townsend value greatly and have a focus on Corporate Responsibilities (CR), this includes a day’s leave entitlement to support a local charity or community activity along with the opportunity to participate in several office events that held throughout the year.

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