Senior Planning Engineer

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

Job Description

Who are you?

You are an expert  Senior Planning Engineer  with a minimum of 10+ years post-graduate experience  looking for the next step or are currently undertaking a similar role in a similar environment.

As a Senior Planning Engineer you will:

• Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and schedule structures for a small, medium, and major complex project and their hierarchy relationship (Assess, Select and Define phase).
• Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of the activities, logic, resources, and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance.
• Roll-out, implement and ensure compliance with the Company standard tools and processes, as appropriate for each project's life cycle development phase. Maintain consistency in schedule bases through rigorous adherence to the controls processes.
• Develop competitive schedules and benchmarks for assigned projects for all pre-DG3 project stage.
• Understand why the Respecting Nature and CO2 footprint matters on the projects and how planning can add value.
• Support the PSMs with Competitiveness review data collection for schedule info. Ensure gap-to-potential plans are called out in P6 schedules. Provide DCMT updates for assigned projects as needed.
• Assist in peer reviews and other Assurance events. Coordinate with Planning TA2’s in advance of PEER reviews, VARs/OVA to deliver strong project schedule assurance. Use the Schedule checklist as a quality KPI and share with the team.
• Engage 3rd party PS teams regarding what the planning expectations are for Project + PMF deliverables (no surprises).
• Facilitate Interactive planning sessions for assigned projects.
• Assess impacts of changes on project targets, productivity, and milestones; engage with technical team, directors, and JV partners for scenario analyses.
• Craft comprehensive schedules spanning engineering and construction phases, from Level I to III, using integrated workshops for planning.
• Establish and Deliver to a monthly reporting cadence for schedule status updates.
• To support what-if Schedules scenarios, Summary Schedules, Decision Roadmaps, Critical Path, Trend analysis, Float erosion, and S-Curves.
• Support delivery of schedule management solutions for all types of projects.
• Generate accurate monthly schedule reports, highlighting variances from the plan and establish schedule forecast.
• Maintain and promote realism in the schedule forecasts in the face of commercial pressure and optimism from project teams.
• Instigate, develop, and police the planning and progress monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently.
• Own the overall schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses. Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy. Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project Management.
• Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project.
• Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule. Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and “What if scenarios” to aid project management decision-making.
• Liase with and challenge Senior Project Management and Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers.
• Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents. Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan. Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations.
• Contribute to the development of the project’s risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate. Regularly track the schedule risk mitigation efforts, the criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency.
• Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities.
• Deliver close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.
• Support development of models for Schedule Risk Analysis and ensure the integrity of third-party contractor schedules and plans.
• Conduct Peer Reviews and assured 3rd party schedules, participating in Estimate & Schedule Reviews and VARs.
• Advise the Project Services General Manager on various projects, including process improvement and gap analysis.

Qualifications

​​​​​​ Skills and Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in Project Planning & Scheduling in all phases. 
• Excellent people skills and ability to communicate effectively. Majority of outputs involve Assurance, extensive analytical work, and benchmarking, enhancing decision quality of leadership teams.
• Specialized in front end development of projects in any project control's role.
• Trained in using the Client's Primavera (P6) -Desktop & cloud version.

Requirements:

• Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Project Planner or equivalent experience. Minimum 10 years’ industry experience including lead / managerial positions in planning, risk management or cost estimator.
• Fully versed with Planning & Scheduling principles, techniques, and industry standard tools.
• Self-driven, proactive individuals with high passion for continuous improvement and business mind-set with ability to work with minimum supervision on a global platform.
• Ability to work across multi-cultural / multi-national environments. Prior experience in benchmarking will be of added value.
• Excellent understanding of all phases of the project delivery process.
• Work experience as Planning Engineer in Front End, Select, Define and Execute phases. Experience in the Operational phase is an advantage.
• To provide flexibility to the team, has direct experience on working in areas within Project Services but outside the traditional Planning role. Self-motivated, resourceful, and have good interpersonal relationship skills.
• Proven leadership skills and strong personal drive-in order to meet deadlines and specific targets
• Team player with clear evidence of working with others to deliver on goals.
• Strong, and demonstrated, personal commitment to HSSE Leadership and experience in managing HSSE throughout all project phases.
• Broad knowledge and experience of Project Engineering techniques, tools, and practices
• Experienced with risk management and Benchmarking.

Additional Information

What's in it for you... 

• 100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services) 
• Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program 
• RRSP option with company matching 
• Annual learning and development budget 
• Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth 
• Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role
• We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex and sick days
• A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives 
• Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging 

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 are an Equal opportunity employer who will ensure accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request. 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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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, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.