Senior Program Scheduler - Data Center

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.

Job Description

Job Description

Turner and Townsend  seek a  Senior Program Scheduler  to join our team to create and manage scheduling for large-scale construction programs.

The successful candidate will be responsible for schedule consulting at program level (overseeing many projects) in all areas of scheduling from pre-construction to close out.

The successful candidate will bring experience supporting the delivery of construction and capital projects within one or more of Turner & Townsend's key markets, including data centers, critical infrastructure, aviation, life sciences, and energy & natural resources. Exposure to complex projects, stakeholder management, and multidisciplinary teams across these sectors is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Implementing best practices and reporting trends both internally and externally.
• Create and analyse project schedules using Primavera P6 and Tableau for a portfolio of projects.
• Review and understand engineering, procurement and construction schedule logic.
• Create, manage, and oversee schedules using critical path method.
• Actively work with project managers and construction firms to maintain schedule integrity.
• Able to produce high level and 1, 3, 6 months look ahead from P6 for reporting.
• Produce logic driven schedules from limited project information a conceptual schedule from initiation through to closeout; identify major phases through that timeline and be able to determine and discuss dependencies.
• Utilize P6 to:
  • create E2E master schedules using known techniques such as rolling wave planning (L2-3 detail).
  • create detailed construction schedules incorporating s/c commitments (L4-5 detail).
  • regularly updating schedules in-line with Program calendar following standard planning principles.
  • resource loading schedules and producing management overview of over and underutilization effectively.
  • identifying and trending movement to key float paths.
  • quantity tracking using S-curves.
• Collaborate with contractors and sub-contractors on regular basis.
• Prepare and update monthly progress reports.
• Actively monitor and communicate any possible project issues that could delay the schedule.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
• Minimum 5-7 years of applicable experience.
• Certification by AACE in planning/scheduling is preferred. 
• Prior experience building a complex master schedule.
• Familiarity with construction drawings, specifications and construction contracting. 
• Able to convert data into Tableau reports and graphics.
• Excellent communication skills.

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs* 

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