Planner

The 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 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 - 10 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.   Turner & Townsend is a global management consultancy and professional services firm focusing on the construction and asset management sectors. We work with the most prominent clients on the largest projects and asset bases across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. Our focus is on programme and project management, cost and commercial management and asset management strategy.   We deliver projects on time and to budget, and to optimise the whole life value of assets on behalf of our clients. We work on projects such as HS2, The Shard, Battersea Power Station, Hinkley Point, Changi Airport, and clients such as Shell, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nissan and Citibank.  The products we are building are cutting edge in our industry, allowing us to deliver these projects better than our competitors.  Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:  Twitter Instagram LinkedIn 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.