Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
At Turner & Townsend, we are passionate about making a difference by delivering better outcomes for our clients and helping our people realise their potential. With over 75 years of experience, we are embarking on a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. We are currently recruiting for a Senior Planning Engineer to join our Project Controls team, working on high profile construction projects across the UK and Europe. This role involves providing performance reporting and analysis support, either as part of a large team or as the key day-to-day contact with the client.

Key responsibilities include identifying trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline using lead and lag indicators, recommending remedial actions to drive best value for the client, leading evaluation of project time, cost, and quality targets, and applying governance controls to enable successful project delivery. You will cooperate with cost managers to ensure agreed cost baselines and value for money, guide and influence contractors to progress in line with schedules and cash flow parameters, and act as the key client contact to resolve delivery and commercial issues.

Additional duties include controlling costs through knowledge of conceptual estimating and procurement principles, creating cost reports and executive dashboards, leading change management processes, coordinating planning sessions and workshops, managing vendor schedules, participating in risk evaluations using Monte Carlo simulations, and ensuring timely and accurate schedule updates.

This role offers the opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial culture where you can directly influence the business and own your career while contributing to a prosperous society.

Experience
Proven experience in at least one of the following areas: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value Management (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls, or PMO. Experience with tools such as Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, or PRISM (Cost Management System) is required.

About you
You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, be rigorous in following documented processes and governance, and demonstrate creativity and innovation to meet the challenges of a changing project environment. You are able to work collaboratively with remote teams and hold vendors accountable for schedule updates and reporting.

Qualifications
Applicants will ideally be degree educated with essential previous industry and sector experience.