Senior Planner - Data Centre

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

The selected candidate will operate in a collaborative supporting team environment, ensuring that client objectives are met.

We are looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated individual who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and who wants to make a difference to the Project Management division. 

Objective of the role: 

To support Project Management commissions in developing plans and programmes to deliver our service and projects and monitor and report against these, in accordance with defined scopes of duties and T&T systems, mission and values;

• To support Project Management commissions to achieve safe and efficient outcomes that meet agreed profit and client satisfaction objectives;
• To develop and maintain relationships with clients, peers and others who are influential in providing future business.

Responsibilities: 

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions ensuring that issues within the programme are highlighted and understood.
• Give appropriate planning advice and direction to project team members & all relevant Stakeholders and produce programme assurance reports on our Client commissions.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against the baselines.
• Deliver Period Programme Updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between Clients and their Partners’, consultants’ and contractors’ programmes of works and compliance with the Project Programme. reporting areas of ‘non-compliance’ for resolution.
• As appropriate and required, provide planning support to the bidding team to do all the activities necessary to submit the bidding documentations in time.

Qualifications

• Data Centre experience is essential for this role 
• BSc Degree in the relevant field is preferred;
• Minimum 5 - 10 years’ post graduate experience is required;
• Regional experience with professional consultancy is necessary;
• Advanced Knowledge and Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Professional working knowledge of project management and Planning software and tools. 
• Project experience within power and energy would be preferred

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