Project Planner
Overview
In this Planner role, you will lead end-to-end planning for complex construction schemes to help deliver client objectives. You will collaborate across cross-functional teams and stakeholders, maintaining schedule integrity and providing insightful progress and risk reporting. The position supports Turner & Townsend’s growth and ambitious 2025 vision through effective planning and delivery. A key hook is applying advanced P6 scheduling and data-driven reporting to drive on-time project outcomes.
Pay / Benefits
- flexible working environment
- focus on work-life balance
- inclusive culture
- equal opportunity employer
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and lead planning sessions with clients and vendors to define master schedules and baselines
- Develop and maintain detailed construction programs using Primavera P6 and Tableau for multi-project environments
- Integrate schedule inputs from vendors, engineering, and contractors into the master schedule
- Implement scheduling strategy, plans, and procedures reflecting company and contractor roles
- Monitor schedule performance, perform critical path and risk analyses, and report progress to clients
- Prepare progress reports and look-ahead schedules (1, 3, 6 months) for management and client updates
- Collaborate with project managers, construction firms, and subcontractors to sustain schedule integrity
- Provide QA interface on schedule tracking and reporting across project functions
- Coordinate multiple sources of schedule data to deliver status reports and identify bottlenecks
- Travel to construction sites as required to support on-site scheduling activities
- Ensure timely delivery of schedule-related data to support decision-making
Key requirements
- Experience delivering high-value, complex construction schedules
- Proficiency in Primavera P6; advanced MS Office skills
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to perform probabilistic/schedule risk analyses and critical path analysis
- Autonomous with effective team collaboration and time management
- Commitment to delivering excellent client service
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Analytical mindset
- Proactive communication
- Primavera P6
- Tableau
- MS Office
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