Senior Planner - Natural Resources & New Energies
Senior Planner - Natural Resources & New Energies
Turner & Townsend
Bridgwater, United Kingdom
Job Description
As a Senior Planner, you will provide services as required by our clients, which may include:
- Leading the planning discipline team on high complexity, high risk project or programmes
- Creation and maintenance of project schedules that assist and align with project requirements
- Adherence to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management of schedule data and submissions
- Assist project team to develop status reports to keep management informed on project progress
- Oversight of day-to-day management, staffing and the implementation of Integrated Project Controls standards and processes
- Development of the project schedules in conjunction with the project manager and project team
- Reducing uncertainty, know objectives and improve efficiency
- Interacting with the project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan
- Interacting with and assisting the project managers to schedule work and coordinate assignments
- Evaluation of 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 a work-around
- Assisting project managers to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures
- Conducting analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
- Undertaking of project reviews
- Monitoring and consolidating of overall project plans
- Monitoring the project managers reporting system summarising the progress status of all projects
- Monitor and advise on status of project KPIs
Qualifications
You have professional Project Controls experience specialising in Planning & Scheduling in multiple sectors across the whole Project lifecycle. You have strong knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software. You are able to coordinate and work with other teams and have multi-disciplinary knowledge.
You will be a strong communicator and leader with the ability to influence, manage, motivate, coach and develop a team by creating a diverse, inclusive and performing team that is promoting empowerment and contribution and with a passion to build a supporting community and network beyond the delivery activities.
You should also have:
- A degree in a relevant technical or management field or suitable equivalent qualifications and experience.
- A membership to a relevant professional body e.g., Association for Project Management, Project Management Institute.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to make risk-based decisions where the parameters are unclear and judgement is needed.
- Project team leadership with the ability to mobilise, inspire and lead by example.
- Strong stakeholder management experience.
- Flexibility to work within different sectors and with diverse clients.
- Ability to navigate through conflict situations and defusing tension.
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