Planner at Turner & Townsend

Job Description
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develops and maintains program schedules identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints for construction projects of various types
• Monitors and actively participates in project and program scheduling issues while administering best practices and standards
• Obtains accurate and timely program schedule updates from project teams and performs QA/QC on information received
• Creates and develops conceptual what-if schedules for multiple project types including large complex multi-year projects
• Performs Critical Path analyses and Earned Value analyses
• Prepares ad-hoc reports and analyses as directed by management
• To produce schedules for complex projects or linked projects forming programmes
•  To help us prepare tenders to secure new work
• To produce schedules for complex projects or linked projects forming programmes
•  To help us prepare tenders to secure new work
•  To provide intelligence-based schedules for construction projects, using experience and site knowledge
•  To analyse contractors’ schedules to identify excessive activity durations with a view to accelerating delivery
•  NEC contracts and the contractual requirement to accept or reject contractor programmes
•  Compiling the information for change management to reject or approve PCN's      
•  Developing the schedule breakdown structure in assisting the project team to develop the wbs      
•  Aligning with the cost team to ensure schedule and cost alignment            
•  Integration of schedules into a master schedule        
•  Managing contractors schedules

Qualifications
Qualifications

Currently a Planner/Senior Planner with consultancy, contractor and/or client-side experience minimum of 8 - 10 years

•  Must use Primavera (P6) and NSP
•  Experience working on projects ranging must be new build/fit-out related across mining and oil and gas
•  Professionally/Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, project management and engineering

Additional Information

• 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.
• We are seeking an experienced Planner to work within our Energy division, with a focus on supporting our Programme advisory and/or Commercial Developer team in Johannesburg. Working within our award-winning teams will give you the opportunity to work across some of Turner & Townsend’s key clients. These clients include a high performing property developers, several blue-chip real estate businesses and household names. You will get the opportunity to meet with clients to discuss their projects and delivery thereof and advise them on realistic timeframes.
• Our major client is looking for a Planner with Cost Control skills as well as Planning.
• Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com