Assistant Project Manager / Project Manager (Planning) - Chennai

Who is Turner & Townsend?

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our purpose:

Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our values:

Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.

Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice

Job purpose:

• The Planning Engineer shall be responsible to develop, maintain, track & report project monitoring & control processes for projects and provide planning, scheduling and cost monitoring details for the assigned project with data center experience.
• The Candidate shall do necessary coordination with project stakeholders, conduct site visits to verify progress and identify any potential and critical issues, work on organizational strategic initiatives.
• Shall have basic knowledge of costing, billing and should be capable of billing when needed.

Principal Accountabilities: 

• Oversee schedule management activities, including review of internal schedules and review of contractor schedules.
• Preparation, finalization and monitoring of Integrated Project Schedule including cost loading in consultation with concerned stakeholders
• Establish and periodically review project schedule of contractors/ consultants/ vendors and integrate to Master Construction program.
• Validate and report on time impacts, scope change impacts, or delays to enable early identification of risks, driving transparency, and predictability.
• Preparation and finalization of Project trackers for monitoring all phases of the project.
• Establish and periodically review project schedule of contractors/ consultants/ vendors and integrate to Master Construction program.
• Validate and report on time impacts, scope change impacts, or delays to enable early identification of risks, driving transparency, and predictability.
• Preparation and finalization of Project trackers for monitoring all phases of the project.
• Establish Project monitoring using Earned Value Management concepts.
• Performs schedule update, tracking of the project progress and generate weekly/monthly reports covering schedule and cost performance analysis of the project.
• Development of resource plans, productivity monitoring, procurement follow-ups.
• Monitors schedule deviation for assigned disciplines or specialties and recommends corrective action/workaround solutions for project considerations.
• Develop interfaces between schedulers, cost, and risk management teams to inform accurate spend forecasting, risk identification, and cost loadings.
• Performs assigned tasks related to implementing standards and techniques for effective schedule & cost control.
• Review and monitoring of project performance parameters.
• Reviews schedule data and identifies and acquires the information needed to complete work logics to interface between assigned disciplines or specialties.
• Assists in developing specific project codes of accounts and work
  breakdown structures and recommends appropriatemodifications and revisions.
• Identifies and reports activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule and prepares and presents the Schedule Impact Report.
• Preparation of all MIS reports.

• B.E, B.Tech graduate with 5 – 10 years work experience in data center projects.
• Postgraduate in Construction Management preferred.
• PMI, RICS, or AACEI certification will be an added advantage.
• Computer Skills : MS projects/Primavera, MS Office, Auto cad, BIM tools, Project Management software

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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.

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