Schedulers/Planners – Hi-Tech Construction Projects (m/f)

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, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job description

Turner & Townsend are looking for an experienced Scheduler/Senior Scheduler to provide schedule and planning services in Poland. The ideal candidate will have a track record of working on complex large scale Construction projects within the Pharmaceutical, BioTech, Data Centre, Industrial, Logistics, Manufacturing, Chemical or similarly complex asset type.

Job Objectives

• Ensure that all measures are taken to finish the work within the given frame regarding cost and time, with special emphasis on the projects prioritized objectives. The project planner also supports the Project Manager in all aspects to keep the project under control, allowing the successful achievement of the given project goals.
• Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Cost Breakdown structures (CBS) in concert with project manager, cost manager and contractor project controls lead and in conjunction with Project Execution Plans.
• Promote and maintain the overall integration and integrity of contractor schedules within the suite of P6 project schedules which includes reviewing schedule durations, dependencies and logic, recommending improvements where possible, reviewing cost and resource loading and validating schedule revisions.
• Perform critical path analysis and comparisons to the baseline of the contractor provided schedules.
• Prepare regular reports and collect data in support of company and client benchmarking and run reports that identify cost and schedule trend data. These reports will be shared with the client and then you will help guide the Contractor on how they can manage or control the trends
• Work close together with the construction team in order to control the schedule.
• Maintain and monitor master plan schedule
• Prepare and monitor tasks ensuring satisfactory realization of project requirements against the project schedule
• Integrate various contract packages into master plan schedule
• Review contractor’s submitted schedule and make recommendations to client
• Prepare regular internal/external weekly and monthly progress report for management and client
• Develop a project control procedure to monitor the progress of project
• Interact with contractor and verify the project data to update project schedule
• Develop mitigation plans
• Assess any contractor’s extension of time claim and prepare defense claim report
• Put forward recommendation report for any contractor’s EOT claim
• Work out site logistic planning for project
• Prepare and propose ‘micro-management’ schedules for critical elements of work.

Qualifications

• Strong Polish and English skills
• >3 years scheduling/planning experience
• Knowledge and experience of all of the main design or project management concepts, tools and techniques and planning methodologies
• Experience of working with General Contractors in a project management, or scheduler/planner capacity
• Excellent knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering
• Understanding of the financial aspects of a project
• Full use of MS Project and/or Primavera P6
• Good knowledge and experience gained within hi-tech, manufacturing, health, retail, leisure and hospitality, education, infrastructure, or commercial sectors

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.

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