Senior Planner

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

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 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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’ programmes of works and compliance with the Project Programme. 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 5 - 15 years’ post graduate experience is required;

• • Regional 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.

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