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Senior Planner
Senior Planner – Project Controls
Location: Scotland Department: Infrastructure, Project Controls Sectors: Energy, Defence, Rail, Airports, Highways, Water & Utilities
Turner & Townsend, part of the CBRE Group, is a global professional services firm transforming how we deliver real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources projects. With over 22,000 professionals across 60 countries, we turn challenges into opportunities and complexity into success.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Planner to join our Infrastructure Project Controls team in Scotland, where you’ll have the opportunity to drive impactful project outcomes.
As a key member of our Project Controls team, you will:
- Support high-visibility infrastructure projects by providing performance reporting and analysis, serving as a critical point of contact for clients or as part of larger collaboratives.
- Collaborate with cost and planning engineers to develop work breakdown structures and establish robust performance baselines.
- Implement progress and cost monitoring methodologies, generate project control reports, and deliver performance insights for stakeholder recommendations.
- Work across the energy, defence, rail, airports, highways, water, and utilities sectors, with our priority currently on defence projects.
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Responsibilities
- Build and maintain effective planning frameworks and schedules aligned with project objectives.
- Apply expertise in programme controls management and earned value (EVM) analysis to deliver data-driven recommendations.
- Establish perfected change and risk management processes to mitigate project challenges.
- Use specialised tools (Oracle Primavera, MS Project, Excel, Prisma) to generate actionable project information.
- Provide clear, well-structured reporting to facilitate decision-making.
- Further SOX control responsibilities where relevant to projects.
Requirements
- Essential:
- Degree-educated, with direct experience in project controls within infrastructure (defence, rail, energy, etc.).
- Specialisation in at least one area: Programme Controls Management, Earned Value Management (EVM), Change & Risk Management, or Project Controls/PMO.
- Hands-on familiarity with primavera, MS Project, Excel, or Prism high-cost management systems.
- Proven ability to communicate clearly and concisely in written and verbal formats.
- Rigorous attention to processes and governance with innovation to adapt to complex projects.
- Security Clearance (preferred but not mandatory) for defence sector projects.
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Why Join Us?
- Impact: Shape infrastructure projects that make a tangible difference in people’s lives.
- ** rie culture:** Livingston will be prioritised—with clear structures and tools to ensure rigour while encouraging creativity to advance your skills and career.
- Global exposure: Contribute to worldwide projects with the scale and experience of the CBRE+Turner & Townsend partnership.
- Investment in our people: Balanced flexibility for growth—supporting you professional and personal endeavours.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We strive for an inclusive environment and actively encourage applications of all backgrounds. Our belief is that collaboration across differences fuels innovation, responsibility and resilience.
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