Senior Planner - Project Controls

About the role

Turner & Townsend is recruiting a Senior Planner for its UAE-based team, supporting projects across infrastructure, leisure, hospitality, airports, highways, retail and commercial sectors. The Senior Planner works in the Project Controls team on high-profile real estate projects, providing performance reporting and analysis support, either as part of a large team or as the main day-to-day contact with the client.

Key responsibilities

• Work with cost and planning engineers to develop work breakdown structures and robust performance baselines
• Establish progress and cost monitoring methods
• Produce project control reports and give performance analysis and recommendations to clients

Required profile

• Previous experience in a project controls environment within the real estate sector (hospitality, commercial, residential, healthcare, leisure, events)
• Experience in at least one of: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value (EVM), Change & Risk Management, Planning, Project Controls or PMO
• Ideal degree education, with industry and sector experience being essential
• Minimum 10-15 years of applicable experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, rigour in following documented processes and governance, and the ability to innovate creatively

Required skills

• Oracle Primavera
• MS Project
• Excel
• PRISM (cost management system)