Senior Project Planner/ Scheduler - Data Center Construction

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.​

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Please note that this role requires a full-time presence on-site in the Groningen area.

Turner & Townsend are looking for a Scheduler to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a track record of working on complex large scale construction projects as well as within one or more of the following : Data Centre, Pharmaceutical, BioTech, Oil & Gas, Industrial, Logistics, Manufacturing, Chemical or similarly complex asset type.

Job Objectives

• Maintain and monitor master plan schedule
• Prepare and monitor tasks ensuring satisfactory realization of project requirements against the project schedule
• Assess, review and monitor detailed Primavera P6 schedules including WBS, activities, relationships, constraints, and resource loading according to Client Specifications.
• Conduct schedule analysis, forecasts, and performance tracking (e.g., SPI, CPI, Earned Value)
• Integrate various contract packages into master plan schedule
• Review contractor’s submitted schedule and make recommendations to client
• Prepare regular internal/external weekly and monthly progress report for management and client
• Develop a project control procedure to monitor the progress of project. 
• Interact with contractor and verify the project data to update project schedule
• Support project management in key decision-making with reliable scheduling insights
• Develop mitigation plans
• Assess any contractor’s extension of time claim and prepare defense claim report
• Put forward recommendation report for any contractor’s EOT claim
• Analyze critical path and constraints to determine the effect of changes to project schedule. Ensure that the Financial Periods are set and followed by the Contractor in the Schedule
• Work out site logistic planning for project
• Prepare and propose ‘micro-management’ schedules for critical elements of work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling, with a focus on complex construction projects, and preferably previous Data Center experience (or other mission critical / industrial projects)
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and EVM
• Proven experience with resource loading, cost/schedule integration, and baseline management
• Experience in coordinating multiple sources of schedule performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project status reports required for large scale projects
• Strong technical understanding of construction methodologies and contract terms
• Familiarity with international project management standards (PMI)
• Excellent command of English 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Develops good working relationships with project team
• The tenacity and drive to inject value and create solutions

Additional Information

What we offer you

At Turner & Townsend we want our people to succeed in both work and life, we promote a healthy, productive and flexible environment. In addition, you can expect:

• A competitive salary based on the position and your experience;
• 25 vacation days with the option to purchase additional days;
• An OV business card for public transportation in the Netherlands;
• A laptop and phone: Anything you need for your work;
• Monthly team events where you get to know your colleagues better informally (barbecuing, a graffiti workshop, making chocolates, padel/golf/running);
• Career opportunities that are tailored to your ambition;
• Working on high-profile projects with international opportunities;
• You will be part of a driven and enthusiastic team that will give you a warm welcome to T&T;
• Room and support for your personal development;
• Possibility to join one of our social networks such as Corporate Responsibility, Equality Diversity and Inclusion or bring a new interest to your colleagues!

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: 

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.