Senior Planner

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

The Senior Planner will report to the Turner & Townsend Project Controls Director internally and the client representative at a project level. The incumbent will be based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

The Senior Planner will operate in a collaborative supporting team environment, ensuring that client objectives are met.

We are looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated individual who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and who wants to make a difference to the Project Management division.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support to the project team for all planning functions ensuring that issues within the programme are highlighted and understood.
• Give appropriate planning advice and direction to project team members & all relevant Stakeholders and produce programme assurance reports on our client commissions.
• Produce progress reports showing variance against the baselines.
• Deliver period programme updates and input to project reports.
• Coordinate between clients and their partners, consultants and contractors programme of works and compliance. Reporting areas of ‘non-compliance’ for resolution.
• As appropriate and required, provide planning support to the bidding team to do all the activities necessary to submit the bidding documentations in time.
  
  

• BSc Degree in the relevant field is preferred.
• Minimum 10-15 years’ post graduate experience is required.
• Local experience with professional consultancy is necessary.
• Advanced Knowledge and Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Professional working knowledge of project management and Planning software and tools.