Senior Planner - Energy & Natural Resources

Turner & Townsend Plc.; Ashford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Planner to join their dynamic team in the Natural Resources and New Energies sector. This role offers the chance to innovate and collaborate on high-profile projects while enhancing your skills in planning and scheduling. As part of a supportive environment, you will lead planning efforts, coach team members, and ensure that project schedules are realistic and robust. The company promotes a flexible working environment that respects work-life balance, making it an ideal place for professionals looking to thrive in their careers while contributing to meaningful projects.

Qualifications

• Experience in using scheduling tools like Primavera P6 or MS Project is essential.
• Ability to deliver updates on planning progress in complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Tailoring planning approaches to meet client needs and leading planning teams.
• Evaluating project schedule progress and identifying problem areas.

Skills

Project Management

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Planning & Scheduling

Leadership

Communication

Education

Formal training in project management

Experience with scheduling tools

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

Cemar Contract Management

Tilos Time location software

Job description

• Full-time
• Department: Energy and natural resources

Company Description

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.

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

• Ability to interact with Management / Leadership members when delivering updates on planning progress within a complex project/programme environment.
• Ability to act as subject matter expert, delivering to planning processes, on complex projects/programmes along with all associated processes & reports.
• Guide the team on appropriate use of systems and tools in relation to Planning & Scheduling.
• Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
• A UK driving license or the ability to travel to client sites across the region, as required, is essential.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience in using a standard scheduling tool (Primavera P6, MS Project etc) is essential (must be willing to attend Primavera P6 training as required).
• Practical application of Earned Value Management (EVM) is desirable.
• Having attended formal training in Tilos Time location software is desirable.
• Demonstratable experience of Cemar Contract Management tool or equivalent is desirable.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable.

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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