Construction Planner - Pharma, Life Science & Industrial

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 worldwide.

Job Description
The Planner / Scheduler is 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.

1. Implement Project Planning/Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
2. Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS) in conjunction with Project Lead, Project Cost Engineer and Contractor project controls leads, and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans.
3. Preparing Staffing, Engineering, Construction progress and customized reports.
4. Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
5. Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
6. Analyze deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions.
7. Prepare the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the Monthly Project Report and specific reports / presentations.
8. Analyze and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.
9. Prepare resourcing plans for the overall and individual project phases, identifying any excessive peak numbers and making recommendations for peak leveling.

Qualifications
* Expertise in project controls and time/schedule management is required preferably within the Life Sciences / Pharma or associated sectors.
* 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.

Additional Information
Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.
We champion our people to succeed in both 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. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/