Senior Planner - Energy & Natural Resources

Why Turner & Townsend?

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Planner to join our busy and expanding Natural Resources and New Energies team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Projects / Programmes. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Planning & Scheduling community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Qualifications

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider planning & scheduling team or independently with reach back support to experienced planning professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following :

• Tailoring planning approaches to meet the client’s needs in line with best practice.
• Leading members of the planning team to develop and maintain plans on highly complex, high-risk projects or programmes.
• Working with the project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
• Evaluating project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
• Breakdown of the critical path and constraints to understand the effect of changes to schedule and recommend work-arounds.
• Lead analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
• Lead the development of status reports to keep management informed on project progress.
• Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on planning processes and practices.
• Challenging schedule information to ensure it is realistic, robust and stands up to scrutiny.
• Understanding and be able to explain the EVM reported periodically.

The candidate

Skills And Behaviours

Qualifications And Experience

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.

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.

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