Planning Manager - Data Center

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

• Lead or support the development and maintenance of integrated project schedules across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• Create both high-level and detailed schedules, including assumptions, productivity rates, calendars, constraints, and schedule health checks.
• Facilitate planning sessions with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align timelines, resolve conflicts, and drive decisions.
• Conduct schedule risk analysis, define contingencies, and support mitigation planning.
• Implement and manage schedule controls, progress tracking, and resource-loaded schedules using appropriate tools and systems.
• Align schedules with cost estimates, forecasts, and execution strategies in collaboration with cost and estimating teams.
• Review and validate third-party schedules and ensure alignment with project standards and expectations.
• Provide regular schedule performance updates, trend analysis, and scenario planning using dashboards and reporting tools.
• Lead or support special projects, process improvements, and the development of project management tools, templates, and procedures.
• Build and maintain executive dashboards and data visualizations using platforms like Power BI, integrating data from various systems.
• Support training and knowledge sharing on planning and scheduling best practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, construction management, or related field, with 5 years of experience delivering large-scale capital projects across multiple phases, preferably with Data Center experience.
• Strong expertise in project controls, planning, and construction management, with advanced skills in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Proficient in developing and managing resource- and cost-loaded schedules, integrating with cost control systems for earned value analysis, S-curves, and manpower planning.
• Experienced in schedule risk analysis, including quantitative risk assessments, contingency planning, and schedule reserve management.
• Skilled in CQV planning, system turnover, and operational readiness for complex technical environments.
• Proven ability to integrate cost, schedule, risk, and change management using consistent coding structures and data governance.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; effective in cross-functional teams and adaptable to on-site or remote project environments.

Additional Information

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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