Senior Planner / Project Planner - Life Sciences
Posted 5 days ago by Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend are leaders in professional services to the Data Centre’s, Life Sciences, Pharma, R&D facilities, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors globally.
We are actively looking to engage with experienced planning professionals with Life Sciences / Pharma sector specific experience.
The ideal candidate should have an excellent understanding of a P6 software/data reporting, as a must, scheduling best practices, resource & cost loaded scheduling, as well as the interpersonal skills to be able to work closely with the internal stakeholders of the project team on a daily basis.
The Planner will take responsibility for end to end service delivery ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added service.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
- Working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to plan, develop and execute construction schedules.
- Regular travel to construction site is expected.
- Effectively work with Stakeholders, Clients, Contractors and Sub Contractors on a daily basis.
- Develop and maintain a detailed construction program schedule using Primavera P6 and Tableau for multi-project environments.
- Ensure that schedule related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems.
- Implement Project Planning & Scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both Company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
- Actively work with project managers, construction firms and subcontractor firms as necessary to maintain schedule integrity.
- Provide interface and quality assurance to Project functional groups and contractors regarding the tracking and reporting of schedule performance.
- Ability to coordinate & organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
- Prepare and update progress reports as required by the client, including the Integrated Planning / Scheduling contribution to the monthly project report and specific reports / presentations.
- Produce high level and 1, 3, 6 month look ahead from P6 for reporting.
- Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
- Actively monitor and communicate any possible project issues that could delay the schedule.
- Conduct the required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
- Analyse deviations from the baseline in the Project Master schedule highlighting bottlenecks / delays and propose corrective actions, and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance / change order.
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 406000265426297
- Job ID:
- 1258000000000330382
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