Senior Planning Engineer

Company Description **Who is Turner & Townsend?** All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors. **Our purpose**: **Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.** The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years. **Our values**: **Love a challenge**:We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time. **Stronger together**:We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone. **Bring out the best in everyone**:We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice **Job Description**: To deliver and maintain standard, consistent and realistic project plans reflecting the assessed risk parameters for each project - Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for major, complex projects - Develop a list of plans required to execute the project and their hierarchy relationship. - Drive, manage and ensure completeness of the development of activities, logic, resources and progress for the integrated project schedule, leading to the creation of the baseline and its subsequent maintenance - Instigate, develop and police the planning and progress, monitoring procedures to ensure that each element of the project performs the processes timely and consistently. - Own the overall schedule monthly progress update forecast, critical path and trend analysis. - Develop status reporting framework and implement throughout the planning hierarchy. - Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to project management teams. - Review scope change requests for the impact on schedules and the critical path of the project - Prepare reconciliation between earlier schedules and the current schedule. - Consolidate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and "What if scenarios" to aid project management decision making. - Liaise with and challenge senior project engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and rivers - Contribute to the development of contract strategies documents - Ensure that all contract key dates and milestones align with the overall integrated plan. - Evaluate bid schedules and review contractor plans to support contract award recommendations - Contribute to the development of project's risk profiles and translate these into the plans using deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods, as appropriate. - Regularly track the reschedule risk mitigation efforts, criticality of the main paths to completion, float consumption and the release of the 50/50 schedule contingency. - Implement, ensure compliance and utilise the client's standard tools and processes. - Provide input data for and conduct benchmarking activities. - Deliver close-out data to enable knowledge retention at completion of work. **Qualifications**: - Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Planning Engineer or equivalent experience - Minimum of 12 years industry experience in lead planning positions, in offshore and onshore oil & gas/chemical/petro chemical projects - Experience in managing small teams of junior personnel - A high degree of skill in written and oral communications - High proficient in planning principles and techniques - Expert in Primavera P6 LI-RT1 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