Junior Project Planner

Company Description

From the inception of a project through to completion and beyond, Turner & Townsend help to deliver the outcomes that matter through transformational programmes covering the full spectrum of consultancy, project delivery and post-project operations.

With offices located globally, you're never far away from our services. Working from 113 offices in 46 countries, we make the difference to projects across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors worldwide.

Job Description

Junior Project Planner

The Junior Scheduler shall be responsible for supporting the Programme Managers and Project teams by ensuring focus on timely delivery of the portfolio of capital projects as planned, within budget and meeting their business objectives.

Junior Schedulers must possess baseline understanding of the project delivery process and timescales to effectively deliver a project. It is expected that the candidate will be educated to degree level in a project management, engineering, or construction industry discipline. Strong analytical & IT skills, particularly Excel, Primavera and MS Office Suite, including Power BI is desirable.

Job Relationships

The Junior Scheduler Will Liaise With:

* Scheduler
* Senior Scheduler
* Client Scheduling Lead
* Client Scheduling specialists
* Client Subject Matter Experts (schedulers, Project Managers, Risk Managers, Finance Managers)
* Team Project Schedulers
* PMO Lead, Project Controls, Cost and Data Teams

Key Responsibilities

* Developing and maintaining project schedules and establishing a baseline.
* Monitoring critical path and float erosion and advising on corrective action.
* Establishing budgets and monitoring project costs; ensuring accurate cost forecasts and profiles, accurately assessing value of work and accruals, and ensuring costs booked to the correct codes.
* Forecast project resource demands and undertake resource smoothing and levelling in conjunction with work package owners.
* Recording & facilitating change management.
* Recording & challenging risk provision.
* Maintaining appropriate re-forecasted project baselines.
* Ensuring that project outputs are captured, reported, and remain accurate.
* Monitoring trends and forecasts and work with the Regional Lead and with Project Controls Manager to identify conflicts and threats to Project success.
* Preparing summary reports to highlight project issues, risks and forthcoming milestones and actions, and prompting intervention as necessary.
* Supporting the Project Manager and Project Team to ensure projects are delivered on time, to budget and meet the project objectives.
* Supporting the Lead Project Control Engineer and Area Project Controls Manager in ensuring overall control of the delivery area programme.
* Ensure involvement and contribution of the whole project team
* Managing complex information requirements from the Delivery Teams, to allow effective management of the Capital Programme.
* Contribution to business success by supporting the development, implementation, and management of new business processes and systems whilst maintaining the team outputs to customers.
* Collaborating with and influencing the Programme Office team, projects managers, and others to ensure successful implementation of ideas and best practice.
* Assist Programme Managers in planning its future projects and phases of work.
* Ability to design and generate multiple reporting formats and outputs independently
* Management of relevant Tools & Systems.

Qualifications

* The junior scheduler must demonstrate knowledge, behaviours and approach that are client centric, professional, and based on best-practice industry standards.
* Proactive ability to improve and develop written best practice material in the form of scheduling handbooks and procedures.
* They shall have a strong, self-policing organizational and administrative disciplines, particularly in the ability to aggregate and report multiple contract schedule updates within set deadlines.
* They shall need to demonstrate excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), negotiation skills and persuasiveness in their various interactions. Experience using project, contract and finance management tools, (e.g. Primavera P6, Maximo, PCM and Oracle) They shall have good presentation skills and ability to work with contractors and consultants.
* Strong commercial awareness in the governance, control and performance analysis of large-scale complex and varied portfolio is required.
* Experience working to regulatory and project deadlines.
* Experience of developing and maintaining effective strategic partnerships with key stakeholders.
* Demonstrated leadership ability, proactive development, motivation, and engagement of teams.
* Driver of high standards for individual, team and organisational accomplishment and delivering desired results.
* They must have civil / infrastructure experience (water experience preferable but not essential) and hold a relevant university qualification.
* They must have scheduling experience with proficiency in MS Project, Primavera P6. MS Power BI and NEC Contract experience preferable.

Additional Information

* The position is full-time, Monday through Friday, with some occasional weekend and evening work required
* The work location is a construction site in Dublin
* The company offers a competitive salary and benefits package

What We Offer You:

* Full time
* Hybrid working
* Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
* Pension
* 25 days Annual leave (23 days + 2 company days)
* Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
* Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
* Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues

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/

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.